Since the pandemic, offices around the world have quietly shrunk. Many organisations don’t need as much floor space or as many desks, given many staff now do a mix of hybrid work from home and the ...

As if the sounds of Alice talking too loudly on the phone, Bob battering his keyboard and Charlie sniffing and coughing through another cold wasn’t bad enough, psychologists have exposed a hidden ...

As someone who has worked in an office both inside and outside the home, I’ve often contemplated my ideal workspace. I generally prefer a traditional office (i.e., four walls and a door) in a building ...

Open plan offices offer a great deal of positive attributes and have become the go-to model in the last 20 years or so. They offer transparency, flat hierarchy, free up more space for shared amenities ...

The new study, from researchers in two Spanish universities, involved fitting test subjects aged between their mid-20s and mid-60s with wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) devices. The workers were ...

Bullying is more likely to happen in open-plan offices, according to new research. The layout leads to a "clearly increased risk" of workplace bullying compared with employees having their own office ...