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If you’ve ever felt your noisy open-plan office makes you cranky and sends your heart racing, our new research shows you aren’t imagining it.
Prior to the pandemic 70% of office-based employees worked in open-plan offices. Employee complaints about this design are rife.
Yet there is little experimental research investigating the effects of office noise on things like cognitive performance, physiological stress and mood.
The results of our study, in experimentally controlled conditions using heart rate, skin conductivity and AI facial emotion recognition, shows the effects of that noise are very real.
Co-working companies are trying to tap into customers experiencing work-from-home fatigue adn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from adn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The remote-work industry suffered a significant blow during the pandemic. At least 226 co-working locations closed permanently in 2020, according to Upsuite, a co-work matching service. But the industry sees a market in workers exhausted by work-from-home life.