The open-plan office trend has been popular since the early 2000s, with designers, architects, and business owners embracing the idea of removing walls, cubicles, and private offices. The goal? To encourage collaboration and foster creativity by sharing space around a communal table. Open designs were seen as a way to unlock the creative energy often [...]
Covid-19 has meant seismic changes for modern offices. Zoom, flexible hours, time-shifting and work from home have had a huge effect on the way most companies function. But as vaccines roll out around the world and the “new normal” looms on the horizon, it’s time to start thinking about how office life – and [...]
Millennials and Boomers have two drastically different philosophies in what they want out of their workspaces, and that can give rise to tension in the office. The Boomer generation preferred quiet spaces and privacy, creating the traditional cubicle office design, still commonly used by large organisations, with a need for internal procedures, standardisation and bureaucratic [...]
