Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
The best office I&#x27;ve experienced (but sadly only visited for two week, the branch I worked at had typical open plan garbage) had the building split into sections where along both sides were small single-person offices (large enough that two people could sit at a desk and work, or 3 to 4 people could sit for a meeting) with closing sliding doors. In the space between the two rows of offices was a small amount of hot-desk space (maybe 6 to 8 desks), some armchairs and sofas and a conference table with projector. The layout was basically:<p><pre><code>    +--+--+--+--+--+
    |  |  |  |  |  |
    +- +- +- +- +- +
    |
    |HHHH  CCC  ####|
    |
    +- +- +- +- +- +
    |  |  |  |  |  |
    +--+--+--+--+--+
</code></pre>
Where H was the hotdesk space, C the casual sofas&#x2F;armchairs with coffee tables, and # the conference table with projector against the wall on one end. Not drawn to scale, of course.