There are two main types of office layouts used by majority companies around the world: Landscape office and Enclosed office. Landscape office is also known as open-plan office and open office. Generally, all employees, including clerks and managers, are in a wider room with less of physical barriers (Brennan, Chugh, & Kline; Brookes & Kaplan, qtd. in Davis 2001)(Oldham & Brass, 1979). Since that it ables to utilise space, open-plan office can contain substantial workers. Alternatively, the enclosed office is traditionally called “multi-cellular” offices. That is, every worker has an individual room and stays in privacy (Oldham & Brass, 1979). Although some researchers (McCarrey, Peterson, Edwards, & von Kulmiz, 1974)claim that landscape office is deficient at auditory privacy, personal privacy and confidentiality, this office layout is more beneficial than enclosed office for employees to enhance work productivity and efficiency. This essay will divide to four main devisions explaining why advantages of open office outweigh traditional office’s. The approaches consist of effective conversation, relaxed atmosphere, organisational health and auditory factor; these will be criticised orderly.
Some experts provide suggestions that organisation should build additional private conversation or meeting rooms in the organisation, for reasons that the main complaints about landscape office listed by employees were lack of privacy and confidentiality(Brennan, Chugh, & Kline, 2002). In addition, Gyllenhammar believed that enclosed office leads employee to feel private and secure in the workplace and is able to liberally have a confidential speaking (Oldham & Brass, 1979). In spite of the fact that traditional office’s physical barrier indeed provides people an individual space, it also intangibly hamper the mobility of informations(Rosander, 2004). Rosender expained that open office