A recent study shows that an open-plan office puts pressure on the brain more than private spaces, requiring more effort into ...

New research tracking brain activity in real time has confirmed what many office workers have long suspected: sitting in an open-plan environment forces the brain to burn extra cognitive fuel just to ...

Recent research highlights the cognitive challenges posed by open-plan offices. A study conducted in Spain shows that such environments increase mental strain compared to enclosed workspaces. The ...

In the work pod, the study found beta waves – associated with active mental processing – dropped significantly over the ...

In other words, in the open-plan office, participants’ brains had to work harder to maintain performance. Even when we try to ignore distractions, our brains have to expend mental effort to filter ...

Arlington Research/Unsplash , CC BY Since the pandemic, offices around the world have quietly shrunk . Many organisations don ...

URBANICA, a direct to consumer premium ergonomic office furniture brand, today announced the expansion of its workstation panel lineup to help teams build focus zones inside open plan offices without ...

New research indicates that brains work harder in open-plan offices compared to private workspaces, requiring more mental ...

Open plan offices offer a great deal of positive attributes and have become the go-to model in the last 20 years or so. They offer transparency, flat hierarchy, free up more space for shared amenities ...