Towards Bimodal-Aware Desk Zoning

A Distributional Survey of Open-Plan Office Focus

A survey of self-reported focus among open-plan-office workers finds the population's within-day distribution is reliably bimodal rather than centred on a single mean, splitting into a short-burst group and a steady-moderate group whose separation widens across the working day, and traces how several participating offices' desk-zoning software has begun provisioning capacity to the distribution's two peaks rather than to its average.

@misc{slop_avtpoo,
  author       = {Joost Nwosu and Renke Sabel and Mirela Hanke},
  title        = {Towards Bimodal-Aware Desk Zoning: A Distributional Survey of Open-Plan Office Focus},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.avtpoo},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-surveying-self-reported-focus-avtpoo/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}