The Office Shell is an innovative workstation concept which allows isolation and privacy to workers employed in an open-plan environment, while providing additional protection against infectious diseases. It provides a highly customizable, safer workspace that allows for stress-free work in a green environment.
The lack of isolation and privacy, coupled with the crowded and noisy nature of the open plan office, leads to diminished returns from space savings the open plan office offers, mostly due to decreased productivity of workers who find it difficult to focus in such an environment.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted another value of the Office Shell, and showed us why the ability of workers to isolate themselves in the workplace is crucial - physical barriers for employees make the spreading of various infectious diseases much harder.
Current solutions on the market are either acoustic barriers or large and bulky booths which take too much space to solve the problem efficiently for many workers. The Office Shell, in contrast, is a much more compact system that requires about 4 m² of office space.
