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Discussion on: Open layout vs closed layout? Something in between? What's the ideal office layout?

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Donald Merand

I like the whole Stanford D School reconfigurable spaces thing, but people often neglect the urgent need for hideouts in open plans. Open doesn't mean only having a romper room - at it's best it's a variety of spaces to suit a variety of needs. This means having an adequate number of solo and group quiet spaces.

I'm a little conflicted about whether we need to have "owned" or "claimed" spaces, but most humans I talk to seem to prefer quite a bit of space customization so you should probably have that ;-)