Historically, open-office floor plans first made an appearance in the 1950s. In fact, German businesses pioneered the concept at a time when they needed to recoup massive deficits in their economy caused by the Second World War. The rest of the world, however, took much longer to open up to the concept of open-office floor plans. Open-office floor plans only started becoming prominent around the same time as the dot-com revolution as innovation and creativity became bywords in the business ... Keep Reading