open plan

noun

1. a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.

open-plan

adjective

1. having no or few dividing walls between areas

   an open-plan office floor

Other Words From

• open-plan adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of open plan¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Meeting rooms and open plan café-like seating areas are replacing offices — and where you sit and work no longer denotes your place in the hierarchy.

From Axios

The open plan “is not great for collaboration, not great for focus work,” Karlsen added.

From Digiday

Found that people who were sent from traditional offices to open-plan offices “were significantly less satisfied.”

From The Daily Beast

I remember him walking past my desk in the open-plan office a few weeks later, saying hi to everyone except me.

From The Daily Beast

“Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted,” Cain wrote.

From The Daily Beast