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Room In Room

Room-in-Room

Those relationships hold true in our 2020 data, and also show a link between effective mobility and the mostly open workplace typology. We’ve asked respondents for the workplace typology where they work and what their ideal typology might be. Roughly 1 in 7 workers currently sit in a mostly open environment and when asked about their ideal workplace, they tend to prefer more private environments. However, when our data is segmented to show how each typology performs, mostly open environments support more choice, provide a wide variety of spaces, and are correlated with greater innovation and effectiveness overall.

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Workers want to return to the workplace while keeping the benefits of flexibility and access to privacy they’ve enjoyed while working from home. All the various forms of mobility studied in this research continue to play out on the platform of the physical workplace— and the design of that workplace has a significant impact on the performance, experience, and behaviors of workers.In our 2019 report, we identified six “degrees of openness” that bring nuance to the open-office debate— and showed that mostly open environments, those that supplement open seating with on-demand private space, tend to perform best.

Those relationships hold true in our 2020 data, and also show a link between effective mobility and the mostly open workplace typology. We’ve asked respondents for the workplace typology where they work—and what their ideal typology might be. Roughly 1 in 7 workers currently sit in a mostly open environment and when asked about their ideal workplace, they tend to prefer more private environments. However, when our data is segmented to show how each typology performs, mostly open environments support more choice, provide a wide variety of spaces, and are correlated with greater innovation and effectiveness overall.