In fact open plan offices can do permanent long term damage to your health.
Open office floor plan bad for your health.
Could open plan offices be bad for your health.
If you work in an open plan office you.
Also people eventually get tired.
Surveys find that working cheek by jowl with your colleagues is bad for your productivity and well being.
People who work in an open plan office had a deterioration in their perceived health and performance and more absences due to illness richardson et al 2017.
Friday 24 may 2013 the article is actually based on a number of studies but the one we found most interesting was a national survey from 2011 conducted in denmark looking at self reported sick days of open plan workers compared to individual office workers.
Open plan offices can be bad for your health.
In fact approximately 70 percent of all offices now have an open floor plan.
Open plan offices large open spaces shared work areas and few private offices are all the rage.