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How do you try to persuade people at work to do something they clearly don’t want or probably really need … like sacrifice their office for an open-plan environment? You could try a rational crypto-economic argument with a hint of threat. The “survive-or-die”; “outsourcing-to-india”; “relo-cation-to-Iowa” arguments may work.
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© 2005 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2005). Going open plan. In: The People Business. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510098_28
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