This serves as a real productivity problem. While you can possibly avoid noise pollution by using headphones (unless music also serves as a distraction) you cannot escape visual distraction short of covering your head with a blanket. Any flutter of activity can ruin a person’s concentration.
Open offices, especially those without any partitions, leave employees with no ability to control their environment and prevent distraction. Employees in private spaces, however, have the ability to control their environment and reduce the likelihood of interruption. Visual distractions can happen anywhere, even in an enclosed office. Almost one-third rate visual distractions as a real problem that interferes with intensive style tasks. Nearly three out of every four American offices have low or no partitions separating employee work areas. Others argue that the open office style blocks concentration, reduces productivity, and even harms workers’ mental and physical health. Some advocates insist that open offices provide the best possible space for collective effort and that young workers prefer it. It did not hurt that open office plans cost less money to construct and maintain. One egregious modern example lies in the “bullpen” style open office concepts that swept American workspaces two decades ago.īuoyed by the seemingly advanced techniques of technology companies in California and elsewhere, many businesses convinced themselves that the open office represented a futuristic way of thinking and progressive organizational style. Trendy office design does not always translate into elite results.
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