Some workplace designs are more about cost-cutting than collaboration. Read how face-to-face interactions were more than three times higher in a cubicle-based office than in an open-plan space.
The supposed aim of open-plan offices is to ensure that workers will have more contact with their colleagues, and that the resulting collaboration will lead to greater productivity. In contrast, the number of e-mails people sent to each other increased by 56%.
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/07/26/open-offices-can-lead-to-closed-minds
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