That really doesn't say anything about why they're terrible. They're just posting a bunch of random factoids without any kind of explanation for why those numbers might be. Seems like everything was cherry-picked pretty well.
Not to mention that some of these data sources are terrible and completely unscientific. Like "respondents to a Harvard Business Review survey". Or seriously.. "Percent rise observed by a Harvard professor" ???
Not only that, at least one fact, how much AT&T saved, seems to imply open office spaces are not terrible. That is because the click-bait headline doesn't specify for whom.
Well, if the other metrics are as bad as they sound then saving $3K USD per employee might not be a net win for AT&T.
Office space has a direct line item on somebody's balance sheet. Productivity doesn't.
There are much better articles on the problems associated with noisy offices. At the very least, they should provide a link to the studies cited (which we can only hope aren't behind a paywall).
yep seems like click bait to me.
It's not click bait, it's just terrible presentation of data.