Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, joins host Peter Cappelli to discuss his research on the effects of an open office plan on workers’ collaboration habits, as outlined in his recent paper “The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration” on In the Workplace.

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