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Do different seating arrangements in an office affect performance of employees?
Consider following seating arrangements:
A)
B)
C)
**Key:**
Red Circle: Person
Brown Rectangle: Table
Blue Line: Window
Black Protrusion: Door
For example, in the last office I worked we ...
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Work environment - open spaces, noise, and distraction [closed]
I recently turned down a job offer at what seemed like a great company because of their work environment. They have a large, open workspace, and it's fairly noisy. There's not much personal space, and ...
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Numbered rooms in the workplace
What are the disadvantages (if any) to having numbered rooms in an office?
Numbering rooms is obviously helpful as a way to navigate to a room and to unambiguously talk about a precise room.
Are ...
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Open space office for team work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there evidence to suggest that certain office layouts are better than others for productivity?
An argument I often hear to justify open space office layout is that, ...
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Is there evidence to suggest that certain office layouts are better than others for productivity?
Joel Spolsky is pretty famous for advocating private offices for workers, particularly software developers (see here, here or here for example). I've also read that Microsoft generally has private ...
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What is the best way to arrange three desks so we don't kick each other?
So there are three desks at my workplace, for us three developers. These ones to be precise.
The problem is, right now, we have them arranged like so:
Do you see the problem yet?
Well, I'm sitting ...
