If your office has an open floor plan, you need a quiet zone. Open-plan offices may promote collaboration and creativity, but they don't offer the tomblike silence and lack of visual distractions that many need to focus and crank work out. That's where a quiet zone...
Pittsburgh-based Davison Inventionland is one of the most creative offices in the world; its 61,000-square-foot factory houses 16 themed workspaces fitted with waterfalls, castles, racetracks and more. Founder George Davison designed the work environment solely to foster employee creativity, and his efforts have paid off: the factory turns out...
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects designed these suspended Nykredit meeting rooms to boost creativity at the mortgage bank's Copenhagen headquarters. The three cantilevered meeting spaces hang from the third and fifth floors of the 10-story building, and the experience of actually giving a presentation in one of these rooms...
Open-plan offices may encourage collaboration and improve communication, but they may also create barriers to productivity, according to a piece in today's Wall Street Journal. As of 2010, 68 percent of U.S. workspaces had an open-seating or open-plan design, which ditches secluded offices or traditional cubicles in...
