Even before coronavirus struck, critics were slamming the layout used in many Western offices – the open plan – as noisy, distracting, stress-inducing and nowhere near the teamwork booster its designers made it out to be.
"Open-plan offices are now the dumbest management fad of all time." Inc. magazine proclaimed in 2018, pouncing on a Harvard study that showed such layouts actually decrease face-to-face collaboration.
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