They actively discourage people from working together.Īnd why wouldn’t they? Any conversation becomes a public discussion. The reality is, as a Harvard Business Review study found, that “ face-to-face interactions dropped by roughly 70% after the firms transitioned to open offices.” Let that sink in.
Indeed, one 1984 study found that open offices would engender a sense of shared mission and increase collaboration.
Open-office proponents promise that, in them, your employees will be better able to collaborate with each other and form close-knit teams. To be clear, my disdain for open offices predates COVID-19 open offices have always been a bad idea. No wonder, with a pandemic going on, no one wants to be packed into an open-air petri dish. Omicron's reproduction number (R-value) is 3.47. By the end of the day, almost the entire office-and bathrooms, doors, and breakroom-were contaminated. In a study from a few years ago of an open office, a harmless virus was placed on a single door. As it turns out, the easiest thing to share in an open office are viruses. Innovation would flourish, friendships arise, and work wouldn’t feel like work. Remember, one of the supposed great virtues of the open office was that we could share ideas with coworkers sitting nearby. That’s especially true with Omicron dumping us right back into the COVID-19 work blues.
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