Your company’s design choices may be accelerating employee burnout. Lots of ink has been spilled on the pros and cons of the open plan office layout, and you may have strong opinions about your office ...

A large national study suggests that the layout of your office may shape workplace relationships, with traditional open-plan designs linked to a higher risk of bullying while more flexible ...

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 ...

Open-plan offices entail a clearly increased risk of workplace bullying compared with employees having their own office or sharing with just a few colleagues. This is shown in research from Linköping ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...