What is Better, Open Plan Or Partitioned Offices?
Let’s face it, not many of us actually get the opportunity to plan our office workspace! You either inherit a layout or your options are restricted by physical or budgetary constraints. The spirit of your company or operation will also dictate how you lay out the workspace: is it a team-based approach or do you need to provide individual or confidential spaces within the overall area? There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. You can certainly provide more work spaces and fit more employees in an open plan office. If the layout of the office needs to be changed, it can be done quickly and with minimal effort as all you need to do is shift some desks (and power outlets, telephone and computer access points etc). Communication is obviously easier because everyone is in the same area and life is easier for supervisors for that same reason. For open plan to work though, you have to be comfortable with the fact that managers and senior managers are in constant contact with
