>...It's like the open plan office idea. Great in the academic literature, but terrible in practice. The open floor plans are terrible in practice, but is ther

>...It's like the open plan office idea. Great in the academic literature, but terrible in practice. The open floor plans are terrible in practice, but is there actually any academic literature that says otherwise? For example: >...In 2011, the organizational psychologist Matthew Davis reviewed more than a hundred studies about office environments. He found that, though open offices often fostered a symbolic sense of organizational mission, making employees feel like part of a more laid-back, innovative enterprise, they were damaging to the workers’ attention spans, productivity, creative thinking, and satisfaction. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-t...