Open offices don’t work, so what’s next for the classroom?
The scourge of open offices is not a new subject for ranting. Open offices were sold to workers as a boon to collaboration — liberated from barriers, stuffed in like sardines, people would chat more and, supposedly, come up with lots of brilliant new ideas. Yet study after study has shown open offices to foster seclusion more than innovation; in order to combat noise, the loss of privacy and the sense of being watched, people in an open office put on headphones, talk less, and feel terrible.
Source: Opinion | Open Offices Are a Capitalist Dead End – The New York Times
Every time I read an article about all of the issues of open offices, I think about how our classrooms are even worse. What do you do differently?
