It would create three storeys of open-plan office space, leaving the original building untouched.

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The essential ingredients of good open-plan office acoustics are evenly distributed sound-absorptive materials and a minimum level of background noise throughout.

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He is intrigued too by bankers' habits of working at partners' desks in a single room, an early example of the open-plan office.

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At her company's large open-plan office in lower Manhattan, the material is strewed all over shelves, desk and work table near a window overlooking the East River.

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Volkema might succeed, with 35-year-old Ayse Birsel and her Resolve office system, which redefines open-plan office space at 120-degree angles with a combination of poles, arms and screens.

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Before coming to Fox, Beck worked at CNN, where, he said, he had an office that looked out on an open-plan office area where producers and reporters had their desks.

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Back in its earliest years, Facebook was a tiny outfit where software developers zipped around on RipStiks in a small, open-plan office to relieve stress during late night work breaks.

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In previous jobs, being in an open-plan office has not really been a problem , but at this point I would give my high teeth for an office of my own as I would certainly be more productive.

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What to me has been noticeable is that there was much more and better communication between staff with individual office solutions, and a deathly silence of open-plan in a larger open plan office.

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