Those big, wide-open offices don’t work—both for employees and the companies who think they improve collaboration among colleagues. It’s time to rethink what the office is.

Clive Wilkinson Architects championed open offices for big companies such as Google and Microsoft. ... It starts with ditching the open floor plan. “The open office is dead,” says Amber ...

Companies like Facebook and Google market their open-office floor plans to potential employees, touting that the design allows workers to work closely together and fosters a culture of collaboration.

Google plans to open Houston office in 2021 The tech giant leased an entire office floor in the One Buffalo Heights office building. To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the KHOU 11 app.

Beginning in the early aughts, American tech workers began leaving cubicles behind in favor of an open-floor-plan office space. It all started with Google, which revealed its new headquarters, the ...

Tech giant Google said Wednesday it planned to open its first Houston office to focus on selling cloud services to businesses in the region. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company leased a floor ...

The completion of that floor will bring the company's total office footprint in the region to 320,000-square-feet of ... Google's expansion plans in Pittsburgh come as part of a larger $15 ...

Indeed, about 70 percent of U.S. offices have some version of open floor plan, according to the International Facility Management Association, adopted en masse by tech giants like Amazon ...