Corporates are moving towards promoting interactive and collaborative work culture, reducing the share of cubicles or individual work spaces to just about 5% today, from as high as 25% a decade ago, according to an international property consultancy.
Consequently, ‘open plan seating’ in offices, which was merely about 25% of the floor plan earlier, has now increased to 45-50% today. “Majority of office space design has slowly moved from a rigid floor plan to one facilitating an open plan seating arrangement,” said Gurjot Bhatia , managing director, project management group, CBRE India.
Share of open floor seating arrangements also vary across sizes of floor plates and type of office function, shows the report. For larger office spaces of over 300,000 square feet, the open plan seating increases to 60-65% of the total area, against 40-50% when space is in the between the range of 50,000 sq ft and 100,000 sq ft.
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