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Workers in open-plan offices are more active and less stressed than those with desks in cubicles or private offices, research suggests. This could be because they make the effort to find privacy to talk away from their desk, the researchers said. The US study used chest sensors to track movement and heart rate in hundreds of people in different buildings over three days.
The potential health benefits should not be ignored, they said.
But they said the study was observational only and factors like location of stairs and lifts could be at play too.
The University of Arizona study, published in Occupational & Environmental Medicine, claims to be the first to measure activity and stress in office workers, rather than asking them in a survey.
It said office workers tended to be a sedentary group compared to other workers, making them more likely to have health issues, including heart problems, tiredness and low mood.
Being less active during working hours has also been linked to greater feelings of stress. In the study of 231 office workers in government buildings in the US, those in open-plan offices - with no partitions between desks - clocked up 32% more physical activity than workers in private offices and 20% more than those in cubicles.
And those who were more active had 14% lower levels of stress outside the office compared to those who were less active.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45247799
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:55PM
Lots of people have answered this correctly, but I think they're all a little bit wrong too.
After working at a massive US-owned multi-national for a few years now I think a Senior Vice President is someone who once ran a part of the business, and was promoted into a role he (or she) has no clue about and in the intervening time lost any insight into the part of the business they did understand.
They then travel around the company asking irrelevant questions about things they don't understand and starting expensive and pointless projects that do nothing useful until they're found out and "retire".
At least that's how we do it.