A manually curated list of studies and articles related to the advantages and drawbacks of open-plan offices.
- 2024/01/30 There’s More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless by Maxwell Zeff via gizmodo
- 2023/12/15 Les conditions de travail sont « globalement moins bonnes » en open space by Frédéric Brillet via Le Monde
- 2021/07/05 Open-plan office noise increases stress and worsens mood: we’ve measured the effects by Libby Sander via The Conversation
- 2020/04/10 The Open-Plan Office Is Dead by Geoffrey James via Inc..
- 2020/02/14 Open Plan Offices Make People Lonelier by Geoffrey James via Inc..
- 2020/01/16 How Open Plan Offices Kill Creativity by Geoffrey James via Inc..
- 2019/11/18 Why office noise bothers some people more than others by Zaria Gorvett via BBC Worklife.
- 2019/10/13 Les open spaces altèrent notre concentration mais aussi la qualité de nos interactions by Gaëtan de Lavilléon via Le Monde.
- 2019/09/11 Plus de silence, plus de productivité by Anne Rodier via Le Monde.
- 2019/04/29 Open-Plan Offices Literally Make You Stupid, According to Harvard by Geoffrey James via Inc..
- 2019/04/24 Workers are revolting against the open office concept, here's why it's not working📺 via CNBC Television.
- 2019/03/07 For development teams, it’s time to throw out the open-office plan by John Lafleur via SD Times.
- 2019/02/12 Cubicles are back, and we have open plan offices to thank by Mark Wilson via FastCompany.
- 2018/07/27 Here’s proof that open office layouts don’t work, and how to fix them📺 via PBS NewsHour.
- 2018/07/16 It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time by Geoffrey James via Inc..
- 2018/07/04 Open-Plan Offices Are Making Us Less Social via ITPro Today.
- 2017/10/04 Open offices are overrated📺 via Vox.
- 2017/04/09 Why Your Office Setup is Destroying Your Productivity📺 by Michael McQueen.
- 2017/02/14 Quiet Doesn’t Cut It: Why Your Brain Might Work Better In Silence by Belle Beth Cooper via FastCompany.
- 2017/02/10 Do The Woes Of Open-Plan Office Design Outweigh The Benefits? by Champaign Williams via Forbes.
- 2017/01/11 Why open offices are bad for us by Bryan Borzykowski via BBC Worklife.
- 2016/10/26 What's More Distracting Than A Noisy Co-Worker? Turns Out, Not Much by Yuki Noguchi via NPR.
- 2016/10/05 Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky by Dan Richman via GeekWire.
- 2016/07/03 The Backlash Against Collaboration by Amanda Schneider via HuffPost.
- 2016/06/28 Is the Open-Plan Office Really Right for You? Pros and Cons of Removing Walls by John Boitnott via Inc..
- 2016/01/23 The collaboration curse by Schumpeter via The Economist.
- 2015/04/22 Why open plan offices suck for everyone📺 via The Feed SBS.
- 2015/02/08 Pros and cons of open plan offices📺 via Financial Times.
- 2014/12/30 Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. via The Washington Post.
- 2014/11/21 Open-plan office designs unpopular with workers and can damage productivity by Anna Winston via deezen.
- 2014/11/18 The open-concept office: Is this modern setup sabotaging our productivity?📺 via The Globe and Mail.
- 2014/10/28 Open Plan Office📺 via ABC Science.
- 2014/09/12 The victims of open offices are pushing back by Ronald Alsop via BBC Worklife.
- 2014/03/28 Open-Office Backlash: Seeking Productivity in a Noisy World by Anthonia Akitunde via American Express.
- 2014/03/13 Too Distracted to Work: The Dark Side of Open Offices by Karen E. Klein via Bloomberg.
- 2014/01/07 The Open-Office Trap by Maria Konnikova via The New Yorker.
- 2013/12/02 The 10 Worst Things About Working In An Open-Office–In Your Words via FastCompany.
- 2013/11/20 You’re Not Alone: Most People Hate Open Offices by Ariel Schwartz via FastCompany.
- 2013/11/13 Research: Cubicles Are the Absolute Worst by [Sarah Green Carmichael] via Harvard Business Review.
- 2013/11/04 Offices For All! Why Open-Office Layouts Are Bad For Employees, Bosses, And Productivity by Jason Feifer via FastCompany.
- 2013/09/18 Is open concept a bad concept?📺 via CBC News: The National.
- 2011/08/11 Open Office Layout is Bad for Brain! by Vikas Hazrati via InfoQ.
- 2010/11/24 Why work doesn't happen at work📺 by Jason Fried via TED.
- 2009/08/17 The Origin of Cubicles and the Open-Plan Office by George Musser via Scientific American.
- 2006/09/07 A Field Guide to Developers by Joel Spolsky via Joel on Software.
- 2006/07/30 Private Offices Redux by Joel Spolsky via Joel on Software.
- 2019/11/05 Pour ou contre les open spaces📺 by Olivier Sibony via Xerfi Canal.
- 2019/09/10 How to Design the Ideal Office (and Why Open Layouts Aren't Always Bad) by Graham Winfrey via Inc..
- 2019/07/25 Open Office Layouts Can Work If You Understand This 1 Crucial Thing About Your Company by Michael Schneider via Inc..
- 2019/05/02 The science of why you hate your open office by Katharine Schwab via FastCompany.
- 2015/02/23 As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers by James Barron via The New York Times.
- 2015/01/14 Are Cubicles Preferable to the Open Office Layout? via The New York Times.
- 2019/04/26 The Advantages of Open Plan Offices by Ashley Donohoe via bizfluent.
- 2018/11/30 Can You Lead in an Open Office? by Jeff Pochepan via Inc..
- 2012/03/18 In New Office Designs, Room to Roam and to Think via The New York Times.
- 2018/07 The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration by Ethan S. Bernstein, Stephen Turban.
- 2013/12 Workspace satisfaction: The privacy-communication trade-off in open-plan offices by Jungsoo Kim, Richard de Dear.
- 2007/09 A model of satisfaction with open-plan office conditions: COPE field findings by Jennifer A. Veitch, Kate E. Charles, Kelly M.J. Farley, Guy R. Newsham.
- 2007/06 The effects of window proximity, partition height, and gender on perceptions of open-plan offices by Kemal Yildirim, Aysu Akalin-Baskaya, Mine Celebi.
- 2005/06 Individual differences in employee reactions to open-plan offices by Alena Maher, Courtney von Hippel.
- 2002/05 Traditional versus Open Office Design: A Longitudinal Field Study by Aoife Brennan, Jasdeep S. Chugh, Theresa Kline.