Employers spend a lot of money on strategies they hope will boost employee performance. But according to new research from cloud-based talent management provider Cornerstone OnDemand and the Harvard Business School, the simple act of rearranging employee seating can be one of the fastest and lowest-cost ways of increasing performance.
The study explored how the distance between two employees’ desks affects various performance measures, and how placing the right type of workers in close proximity to each other has been shown to generate up to a 15% increase in organizational performance with an estimated $1 million in gains annually for some employers.
