2018-07-30 Monday - Open Offices - Bad for High Performance Employees

https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/when-the-walls-come-down

• "Oxford Economics conducted a survey of more than 600 executives and 600 employees to better understand what works for employees—and what doesn’t—about open-plan layouts,"
• "... results show that threats to productivity and worker peace of mind are bigger issues than most executives realize..."

5-part article series... 

https://hackernoon.com/know-the-soul-of-the-high-performance-employee-then-we-can-build-the-10-000-things-ad753ffd9b7f 

• See Part-2 for this quote: "58% of HPEs need more private spaces for problem solving, and 62% of HPEs find their office environment “too distracting.” (4,000+ respondents)

https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/if-you-want-people-to-collaborate-get-rid-of-this-office-plan.html 

• "Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban, at Harvard Business School and Harvard University, took a look at people who switched from individual cubicles to an open office plan. What they found wasn't more collaboration after the switch but less. Participants in the study spent 73 percent less time in face-to-face interactions 67 percent more time on email 75 percent more time on instant messenger"

https://hbr.org/podcast/2018/05/office-spaces

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/07/26/open-offices-can-lead-to-closed-minds

• "Some workplace designs are more about cost-cutting than collaboration"