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Is Your Open Office a Nightmare? The Dream of the Supercubicle Is Still Alive
The 'Brody' is an effort to reclaim workplace privacy while preserving collaboration—and enhancing comfort and function for the modern office-dweller.
It'll boost the team's communication, they said. It'll make the company more collaborative, they said.
Today the open office layout is as commonplace in business as a Keurig machine. For all the benefits that the open office was meant to deliver, from a flatter company structure to team-oriented problem solving, the open-office revolution can be measured best by the uptick in noise-canceling headphone sales.