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We all hate open-space offices, so why are they still around?

You know who thinks open-office designs are a good idea? People with offices. Scientific American contributing editor George Musser joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the open-office plan took off, the downsides its designers didn’t anticipate, and what a better office layout might look like. His article is “Fixing the Hated Open-Design Office.”

This episode originally aired April 13, 2023.