Nowadays, some buildings such as offices and schools have open-space design instead of separate rooms. Why is it so? Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

It is increasingly common to see

work

places and schools have open space designs, there are many reasons why

this

style of architecture is popular with the major reason being

that is

low cost and I believe it is more of a negative trend than a positive one.

To begin

, the popularity of open floor designs is on a rise in most

cities mainly

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cities, mainly

because it is cheaper to construct than the alternative. Presently, the cost of making older style offices has

skyrocketed leaving

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skyrocketed, leaving

most companies with the option of using

open plan

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the open plan

an open plan

for offices or schools.

Therefore

, in the

abscence

the state of being absent

absence

of doors and walls

,

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,

more staffs can

work

in the

work

space available, desks are joined together or separated by

small amount

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a small amount

of room. Building offices with open floor plans is a negative development because it leads to a noisy environment where the staff would not be able to concentrate properly on the task at hand

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.

Moreover

, the perpetually

nosiy

full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds

noisy

atmosphere could make one easily agitated.

Also

, with

this

type of design, communicable diseases can easily spread from person to person because a large number of people are utilizing the same air. According to Business Daily Magazine, a lot of staffs at Google office in Abuja who were at the

center

an area that is approximately central within some larger region

centre

of the Monkey Pox outbreak

last

year were inclined to believe that if they were not

so

to a very great extent or degree

So

tightly packed in their office

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,

the disease would not have spread as fast as it did. To conclude, the main reason for the surge in the presence of open plan offices and schools is its cheap cost.

Furthermore

, the fact that

this

floor design leads to poor concentration due to noise, thereby reducing

work

output, and

also

facilitates the quick spread of communicable diseases makes it a negative development.