The group office is intended for a larger group of employees and represents a hybrid of open-plan office and combination office. Contrary to open-plan offices, the area is easier to manage, but since there are no walls either, the space has to be divided into different areas. Depending on the number of employees, one can differentiate between small groups (five to eight) and large groups (eight to twenty people).
Advantages
• perfect flow of communication
• promotion of team work
• significantly quieter than open-plan offices
• economic use of space
• nonverbal information exchange
• easily manageable
• sense of community
• high degree of flexibility as regards space
Disadvantages
• noisy, not really discreet
• hard to concentrate
• everyone can watch
