open plan
a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.
Origin of open plan
1Other words from open plan
- open-plan, adjective
- Compare closed plan.
Words Nearby open plan
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How to use open plan in a sentence
Meeting rooms and open plan café-like seating areas are replacing offices — and where you sit and work no longer denotes your place in the hierarchy.
The open plan “is not great for collaboration, not great for focus work,” Karlsen added.
Get back to work: More collaboration spaces considered for post-pandemic offices | Jessica Davies | March 12, 2021 | DigidayFound that people who were sent from traditional offices to open-plan offices “were significantly less satisfied.”
P.J. on the Owl-Monkey Project and the Science of Chick Flicks | P. J. O’Rourke | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI remember him walking past my desk in the open-plan office a few weeks later, saying hi to everyone except me.
Randi Zuckerberg: How I Learned to Balance Business and Creativity | Randi Zuckerberg | November 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted,” Cain wrote.
Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine Explores Creativity for Capitalists | Casey Schwartz | March 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for open-plan
having no or few dividing walls between areas: an open-plan office floor
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