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The Transparency Paradox: How Open Plan Offices Shut Down Interaction

For decades, the prevailing trend in corporate architecture has been a ‘war on walls’, characterised by the removal of cubicles and private offices in favour of open, ‘unbounded’ workspaces. The primary motivation for this shift is the belief that removing physical barriers will foster greater collaboration, increase face-to-face (F2F) interaction, and boost the ‘collective intelligence’ […]

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