Open plan offices can suck the life out of workplaces. But it doesn't have to be this way.
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Research shows that many building codes don't designate the maximum number of people that should fit in an office, but that's not the only problem with standard office design.
An open-plan office is not all it's cracked up to be but the alternative, segmented spaces, has its downsides as well.
Office space is one of the largest costs associated with running a business, which is why hot desking, where employees choose from a selection of available work sites rather than having an assigned workspace…
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Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Academic Chair - Organisational Psychology, Murdoch University
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Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre For Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD Candidate in Biodiversity and Human Health, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Research Associate in Public Health, University of Cambridge
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Senior scientist, Institute for Work & Health. Associate professor: Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto & School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Work Psychology, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Organization Behavior, Florida State University
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Professor and Chair of Technology Management, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Honorary Professor, University of Southern Denmark
