Open Concept Office Space
Although the open office design is intended to encourage us to interact face to face it gives us permission not to.
Open concept office space. An open office space at a gsk office in north america. In recent years open plan office spaces became a trend that businesses were quickly jumping on. Many large corporations redid their office design just to accommodate the newly desired open work.
The goal should be to get the right people interacting with the right richness at the right times. Yet the business review found a single best physical or digital workspace architecture will never be found. Today about 70 of all working areas adopted this trend so we assume that it works.
The original idea of open space office is designed back in 1950 by a team in hamburg who thought that this would ease communication between employees.