The Office, starring Steve Carell, explored the absurd extremes of open-office corporate culture at fictional Dunder Mifflin. During the show’s run from 2005-2013, open concept was all the rage. On ...

The frustrating disruptions that come with working in an open-plan office can play havoc with our concentration. How do you get around it, without being rude? There’s no such thing as a quiet day at ...

The evidence for the perils of open offices isn’t just anecdotal; there is a host of research backing it, too. Here’s what science has to say about how open plan offices impair the way we work ...

Microsoft Office remains a powerful platform among office suites. However, with the rise of free alternative office suites like LibreOffice and Apache’s OpenOffice to Microsoft Office, the question ...

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Maybe open office spaces have initiated the halcyon days of productivity, or perhaps they’re a harbinger of workplace productivity doom. It all depends on whom you ask. Open offices were meant to be ...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that open-plan offices are all the rage in workplaces across the U.S. They bring up visions of aesthetically pleasing spaces with rows of desks ...

In 1967 chemical company DuPont gutted a floor of an office building in Delaware and rebuilt it. The firm put almost everyone into one big room with low partitions. In one corner, they provided a ...

In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the ...

It’s not just loud and sniffly, open offices are actually hurting our brains. Now some businesses are bringing back walls and doors. Four years ago, Chris Nagele did what many other technology ...

They can be noisy and distracting or depressingly quiet, and frictions with co-workers are guaranteed - so why do so many of us continue to work in open-plan offices? In the spring of 1962, a ...