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The layout of your office can have a surprising impact on your employees' performance. It affects the way people work each day and even the norms that develop into company policy. Neither open-plan offices nor cubicle workstations are automatically better; instead, you should choose based on the type of work environment you want to create.

Cubicles

The point of a cubicle is that even an employee who doesn't have their own office will have some privacy. This can help employees feel more at ease since they're not constantly being watched by other people and have their own workstation to personalize.

WorkstationsIt can also minimize distractions and interruptions, and even slow the spread of germs through the workplace since employees interact less and don't share space and equipment as much. However, it does mean your employees won't collaborate as easily or as often since they're visually cut off from one another during the day. It also takes more office furniture. This setup is best for industries that handle private information, like financial and legal organizations, as well as settings where group work isn't frequent, and employees mostly need to focus on their own tasks.

Open Plan Offices

The main draw of an open plan office is communication. Employees are working side by side in a shared space, which encourages them to talk with each other and collaborate. The space is flexible, making it easy to rearrange office seating and expand if you hire more employees, and also makes it easy for individual employees to move around and work in different areas during the workday. In general, it's a more attractive floor plan and helps create a pleasant atmosphere. On the other hand, there's no privacy for employees and plenty of distractions throughout the day. This model works best for industries--or individual teams--that focus on creative and collaborative work, such as marketing and PR firms, think tanks, and nonprofit organizations.

 

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