Blame the person next to you for your performance at work

Open office seatings can be intrusive but here's the bad news: It's not going anywhere.

Quite contrary to everyone's liking, the ideal arrangment is still about sitting next to one another, according to a new study.

However, what's new is that it matters who you're seated next to.

Researchers from Harvard Business School (HBS) monitored the seating arrangements and employee output of 2,000 workers as part of the study, Bloomberg reported.

They found that those employees sitting next to a productive lot were positively influenced.

While those sitting next to lethargic employees felt discouraged.

Researchers call this a spill-over effect, but believe the effect of this diminishes outside a 25-foot radius.

Regardless of the spill-over effect, people in general dislike open offices as it affects employee attention span and individuality.

Therefore, in order to leverage effeciency, companies should ideally seat employees to the type of worker they are.

The research concluded mixing people with different levels of productivity can overall have a positve impact.