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If you’ve ever felt your noisy open-plan office makes you cranky and sends your heart racing, our new research shows you aren’t imagining it.
Prior to the pandemic 70% of office-based employees worked in open-plan offices. Employee complaints about this design are rife.
Yet there is little experimental research investigating the effects of office noise on things like cognitive performance, physiological stress and mood.
The results of our study, in experimentally controlled conditions using heart rate, skin conductivity and AI facial emotion recognition, shows the effects of that noise are very real.
Open-plan offices bad for productivity
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Recent studies show that the overwhelming majority of Australians want to continue working from home some of the time, due mostly to the potential savings on commuting times and childcare costs.
Yet politicians and vested interests like CBD property owners, the Business Council and the Property Council are trying to force Australians back to the office.
Prior to the pandemic around 70% of office-based employees worked in open-plan offices. And a new study from Bond University shows that open-plan office noise increases stress and worsens mood, likely damaging worker productivity:
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