...Paul Roelofsen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how the performance of the personnel can be negatively affected by conversations, adjacent to the working space, in an open‐plan office environment. Design/methodology/approach Using two scientific mathematical models it is possible...

...Kathy O. Roper; Parminder Juneja Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic and systematic understanding of a fundamental issue within open plan office designs: the sustainability of two extremely contrasting requirements, concentration and collaboration, in the same workspace...