How open-plan offices
make everything worse
Open-plan offices are thriving despite boasting measurable flaws and negative effects on employees, writes Maria Konnikova. The bustle of open-plan workplaces increases stress and makes it harder for employees to concentrate or work productively. "Regardless of age, when we're exposed to too many inputs at once -- a computer screen, music, a colleague’s conversation, the ping of an instant message -- our senses become overloaded, and it requires more work to achieve a given result," Konnikova writes. The New Yorker (free content)/Currency blog (1/7)
Open-plan offices are thriving despite boasting measurable flaws and negative effects on employees, writes Maria Konnikova. The bustle of open-plan workplaces increases stress and makes it harder for employees to concentrate or work productively. "Regardless of age, when we're exposed to too many inputs at once -- a computer screen, music, a colleague’s conversation, the ping of an instant message -- our senses become overloaded, and it requires more work to achieve a given result," Konnikova writes. The New Yorker (free content)/Currency blog (1/7)
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