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12. 91 percent of high-level managers: Ibid.

13. The consultant Stephen Harvill told me:

Author interview, October 26, 2010.

14. over 70 percent of today’s employees:

Davis, “The Physical Environment of the

Office.” See also James C. McElroy and

Paula C. Morrow, “Employee Reactions to

Office Redesign: A Naturally Occurring

Quasi-Field Experiment in a Multi-Generational

Setting,” Human Relations 63, no. 5

(2010): 609–36. See also Davis, “The Physical

Environment of the Office”: open-plan

offices are “the most popular office design”

today. See also Joyce Gannon, “Firms

Betting Open-Office Design, Amenities Lead

to Happier, More Productive Workers,”

Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh), February 9, 2003.

See also Stephen Beacham, Real Estate

Weekly, July 6, 2005. The first company to

use an open plan in a high-rise building

was Owens Corning, in 1969. Today, many

companies use them, including Proctor &

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