Modern design tends to be polarizing. Not everyone loves the boxy aesthetic that swaps out ornamentation for spare lines. One tenet of modernism, however, seems to be wildly popular: the open ...

Open-concept offices and unassigned "hot desks" may be all the rage, but they could be costing your firm or office tenants up to two hours a day in productivity per employee, according to a poll ...

By 2015 it's estimated that three quarters of all companies will have an open plan office design. In 1994, workers had about eight square metres to call their own.

Open-plan office layouts were created to foster communication and cut bureaucracy, but they can leave you with nowhere to hide, and can even foster sexism at work, according to one researcher.