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The death of the open-plan office? Not quite, but a revolution is in the air

  • Written by Andrew Wallace, Program director of Interior Architecture, University of South Australia
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“What will it take to encourage much more widespread reliance on working at home for at least part of each week?” asked Frank Schiff, the chief economist of the US Committee for Economic Development, in The Washington Post in 1979.

Four decades on, we have the answer.

But COVID-19 doesn’t spell the...

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