Open plan offices – the Silicon Valley turned global trend of fostering hip and funky collaboration hubs and idea percolating meccas. Well, I’m not sure about you, but I am sick to death of not being able to do my work because all I can hear is my co-worker Kevin speak to his partner about whether taco Tuesday’s should be changed to Thursday’s! And research has shown I’m not alone in feeling this way. A Steelcase study of 10,000 workers across 14 different countries found that working privately was important to 95% of employees but only 41% said that they could actually manage...
