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# Open Plan Offices: only a manager could love them
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2015/12/11458/
- Published: 2015-12-17T16:57:50.000Z
- Updated: 2015-12-17T16:57:50.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: offices, workplaces, workstyles

[Why really bad decisions get made about open plan offices](https://medium.com/@rands/your-best-work-5a72a1ad408d?ref=onemanandhisblog.com#.dyc65n5o3)

It’s because the people making the decision don’t have to use the space:

> Let’s start with the fact that the folks often making the space decision are managers who already don’t spend much time at their desk because they are, by necessity, in meetings all day. They’re already in a quiet and private conference room where they can focus on the task at hand. They (we) don’t intimately understand the daily tax of constantly being interrupted because they (we) are not living it on a daily basis.