open plan

noun

a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.

Compare closed plan.

Origin of open plan

First recorded in 1935–40

Related formso·pen-plan, adjective

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Examples from the Web for open-plan

Contemporary Examples of open-plan

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
I 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
“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

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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