{"id":82,"date":"2012-01-22T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2012-01-22T20:52:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T20:52:53","slug":"open-plan-doesnt-equal-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/open-plan-doesnt-equal-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Open plan doesn’t equal smart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There have been many<\/a> articles<\/a> recently, critiquing the open plan office. It’s not hard to see why…noisy, no privacy, no personal space, constant interruptions.\u00a0 It doesn’t have to be this way though, a truly smarter office offers the right environment for the work you need to do and recognises that through a given working day or week, that work changes and hence, so does the environment you need.<\/p>\n

\u00a0So is this the renaissance of the cube farm? Not quite…\u00a0 .\u00a0 When we look, broadly, at the type of work people do, then we can break it down into four types with each type being most efficient in a certain environment.<\/p>\n