Here's why you hate your open office, according to science. via CNBCMakeIt
Open offices have been all the rage for decades now, in part because they're less expensive to put together and also because, since the 1950s, efficiency experts have promised they would make communication easier and work better.
"If you work in an open office, you're more likely to be stressed out, less productive, and less satisfied," he tweeted.That's because, as he explains in more detail on an October episode of his show, when you're stuck at your desk,"you're getting a lot of stimuli that you didn't ask for — like other people's conversations and phone calls. And you can't simply shut these out, no matter how good you think you are at concentrating.
Back in 2014, an article in The New Yorker made the same argument. It cited research that found that open offices"were damaging to the workers' attention spans, productivity, creative thinking, and satisfaction. Compared with standard offices, employees experienced more uncontrolled interactions, higher levels of stress, and lower levels of concentration and motivation."
A massive study of over 40,000 workers in over 300 offices concludes that, thanks to a combination of audio and visual pollution,"open-plan offices don't work," reports Inc.
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