Office design has fundamentally changed in recent years and one of the most positive changes is an increased focus on workspaces that prioritise the mental and physical health of the people who use them each and every day.

A powerful tool in this regard is daylighting, an architectural concept which optimises natural light entering the office.

It is a big reason why internal glass partitions have become a fundamental part of office design; they maximise the amount of light that can reach every corner of the office.

This has economic benefits in reducing the need for constant artificial lights, has health benefits through a reduction of eye fatigue and can help boost mental health, which not only is vital in its own right but is also connected to productivity.

At the same time, however, partitioning an open-plan office space is typically necessary to create separate spaces for people to work or hold meetings with some degree of privacy, which would make transparent glass largely unsuitable.

However, a popular alternative to this is the use of frosted glass, which allows for the benefits of daylighting without the negative side effects of reduced privacy, which can itself affect the overall productivity of a company.

Whilst frosted glass is popular in its own right as a stylish modernist design element popular in a lot of minimalist office spaces, it also has a range of practical benefits.

The development of offices in the 2020s has focused not on forcing every single employee to work in the same type of space in the same type of way, but to give them options for open collaboration, privacy or a combination of the two.

A beneficial side effect of frosted, tinted or slightly opaque glass is that it can avoid the issues of monitor glare, allowing for greater options in desk management and space optimisation without causing some employees to endure less-than-optimal working conditions.