If you work in an open plan office you.
Open office floor plan bad for your health.
Open plan offices can be bad for your health.
Open plan offices large open spaces shared work areas and few private offices are all the rage.
In fact approximately 70 percent of all offices now have an open floor plan.
Open plan offices might be saving your boss money but they can be bad for your physical and mental health.
People who work in an open plan office had a deterioration in their perceived health and performance and more absences due to illness richardson et al 2017.
Also people eventually get tired.
As if that weren t bad enough open plan offices can make a normal workplace toxic and a toxic workplace even worse.
Could open plan offices be bad for your health.
Friday 24 may 2013 the article is actually based on a number of studies but the one we found most interesting was a national survey from 2011 conducted in denmark looking at self reported sick days of open plan workers compared to individual office workers.