The diagrams illustrate layouts of typical American and a Japanese office. Overall, the Japanese office has an open-plan design with managers sitting among employees, whereas the American office is divided into separate rooms and work areas. Another noticeable difference is that the Japanese office accommodates more staff in a shared space, while the American office provides more private facilities.
The Japanese office, the department’s manager desk located at the top of the room consisting with two similar groups of desks below, each supervised by a section manager. There are 6 tables of each employees sitting in front of them with the main table on the top. The room has enough empty place to construct new places for communication with guests. The place doesn’t have several rooms and everyone works in the same area.
Regarding American office, it is slightly bigger than the other one which doesn’t have sufficiently place to change something in the room. Office includes several rooms such as copy and two conference rooms that also has storage near. In front of the rooms there are few section employees with department manager. Chairs and tables manly occupy the centre of the office with 2 for both of them.