How to Stay Focused in an Open-Plan Office
Open-plan offices can cost us 10 IQ points.
4 min readMay 5, 2021
The move towards open-plan offices was said to make us more collaborative and productive.
But as Sue Shellenbarger wrote in The Wall Street Journal, it has had the opposite effect. “All of this social engineering has created endless distractions that draw employees’ eyes away from their own…
