open plan
- a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.
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Origin of open plan
First recorded in 1935–40
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Found that people who were sent from traditional offices to open-plan offices “were significantly less satisfied.”
I remember him walking past my desk in the open-plan office a few weeks later, saying hi to everyone except me.
“Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted,” Cain wrote.
open-plan
- having no or few dividing walls between areasan open-plan office floor
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