open plan
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noun
a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.
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Origin of open plan
First recorded in 1935–40
OTHER WORDS FROM open plan
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How to use open plan in a sentence
Found 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|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|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|DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for open plan
open-plan
adjective
having no or few dividing walls between areasan open-plan office floor
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