In bad news for those set to return to work, open-plan offices may make people less productive and satisfied.
Having a desk looking out on too many other people makes it harder to concentrate and work productively, a study has found.
People lose out when sitting next to a wall rather than a window. And those assigned a desk with too many people behind them also appear to lose focus and feel less like one of the team.
The results suggest that, in offices just as in restaurants and pubs, people prefer to sit with their back to the wall rather than out in the middle.
Christian & Patrick on 20 years of directing
The director duo cut their teeth creating unusual animated visuals for artists like Björk as part of Lynn Fox. They reflect on how architecture influences their work, the elements that ads often overlook and the future of music videos 28/04/2021 7:23 am
Christian Mckenzie and Patrick Chen rose to prominence in the early 2000s as part of directing collective Lynn Fox, which was completed by Bastian Glassner. Together, they created a spate of animated music videos and visualisations that often leaned into ethereal or spectral territory, brought to life with the burgeoning possibilities around CG. Their visual language especially resonated with Björk, who enlisted Lynn Fox for various projects over the course of a long-running creative partnership.
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