How an office seating plan can affect the bottom line

Office seating plans may generally be decided on a practical basis, but a new study has found that where staff sit can have a serious effect on morale and productivity.

Researchers at Cornerstone OnDemand and Harvard Business School uncovered how the distance between two employees’ desks affects various performance measures, and how placing the right type of workers in close proximity to each other has been shown to generate up to a 15% increase in organisational performance – Business Wire reports.