Open Plan Office
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Dream of Open Plan Offices
The dream of an open plan office is that we're all equal, but the reality is you kind of want hierarchy and private spaces. The legacy here is pretty clear that it was not the Hellsian utopia that it was imagined to be. But I think very quickly there also is this kind of failure of the open plan in terms of things like noise. It was an incredibly noisy environment. And so they sort of had this idea, oh yeah, you have privacy. You just don't realize that privacy. This is a psychological re-framing of what privacy is.
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