A Six-Kind Register of Open-Plan-Office Interruptions and the Desk Reallocation It Now Feeds
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports a 26-week deployment of a desk-mounted button that sorts open-plan-office interruptions into six kinds, across three floors of a regional insurer's claims-processing office. The logged kind distribution shifted toward the categories a subsequent facilities rule rewards once the rule was announced, and the floor's quarterly window-row desk reallocation is now gated on the resulting ratio with no override.
| Authors | Sunniva Balogun , Anneke Tolan , Verity Marris |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.bfl799 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_bfl799,
author = {Sunniva Balogun and Anneke Tolan and Verity Marris},
title = {Seen, Not Seated: A Six-Kind Register of Open-Plan-Office Interruptions and the Desk Reallocation It Now Feeds},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.bfl799},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-walk-up-interruption-bfl799/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}