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Why open-plan offices break concentration
When a workplace moves into open plan, the work that staff lose to noise can double, and how clearly nearby speech carries predicts that cost better than sheer volume.
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Air quality, daylight, acoustics and the view from the desk move cognitive performance in measured terms. Whoever sets those variables in the building rarely carries the cost of getting them wrong.
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Checking the biophilia business case
Read at the primary sources, the case for nature in buildings is narrower than advertised and strong enough to act on.
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Germany hasn't priced its indoor air
France priced indoor air pollution, Britain poor housing and Australia indoor mould. Germany has the method, and the missing number is a political choice.
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Four design choices that change office work
Even under conditions counted as acceptable, air quality takes 5 to 10 per cent off performance. Speech disrupts memory in the open plan, light shifts sleep and circadian timing and the view evidence stays thin.
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