Open offices are often said to promote teamwork and communication, but the benefits come with a drawback. Office workers are also distracted by coughs, loud conversations and other annoying noises.
Stuffy offices can halve cognitive scores
The bad air quality found in many office buildings may also affect performance, health.
People who keep their cell phones on "silent mode" share similar psychological traits
Study reveals that keeping phones in "silent mode" improves focus, reduces stress, and increases workplace well-being among workers.
Open offices are as bad as they seem—they reduce face-to-face time by 70%
To encourage unbounded, collective intelligence, offices may need physical boundaries.
Why It's So Hard to Focus at Work (Hint: It's not you, it's your workplace)
The workplace is overloaded with distractions. Here's why (and how) companies should protrect their most important asset – their team's attention.
Productivity Is Happiness
When we talk about productivity, it is usually in the context of our professional lives. Is this fair? Does productivity begin and end at the office door? I’d like to address this question indirectly, …
Open-plan offices must be rethought to prevent employees losing focus, finds Haworth
Open-plan offices are "sabotaging" employees' ability to focus at work, while connectivity is leaving them "paralysed", according to research by Haworth
Study finds 'toxic' employees hurt everyone at work
Work can be busy enough -- no one needs to waste their time avoiding colleagues behaving badly. But new research shows that employees who are excessively confident, or are bullies, or who exhibit any number of bad behaviors might be worth skirting...
Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices | The Walrus
WeWork offers freelancers a chic workspace and beer on tap—but are people productive?
How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?
Many more firms are monitoring and analysing employee communications and behaviour. Does it work?
Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace.
Workplaces need more walls, not fewer.
Let’s Take This Open Floor Plan to the Next Level
NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES: Since tearing down all of our walls, offices, and dividers in favor of one large, open room with rows of desks, we’ve received anecdotal...
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Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'
More managerial jobs generate more meetings, but they are not about making decisions, says a study.
On Politics at Work
What happens when you can’t have a political conversation at work? Political conversation continues at work, between coworkers. If these are conversations that …
We're Ditching the Office Completely: Here's Why
Last week we closed down Buffer's only physical office. We're now fully, truly remote. Here are the reasons why.