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The office is the working environment in which an increasing proportion of the population spends their days . One type of office are open plan offices which are characterized by several people sitting together in the same room without spatial boundaries . The general discourse of this kind of offices is that they constitute an advantageous design that allows organizational changes without the need for redevelopment . From a work perspective, this office design is both criticized and acclaimed . Problems with noise is frequently reported in research which can lead to ill health. At the same time quantitative studies shows that these office designs can both positively and negatively affect the cohesion and leadership at work. A deeper understanding of how office design affects cohesion and leadership is missing. This interview study aims to examine employees ' and managers' perceptions of how the open plan office affect the cohesion and leadership at work.Based on twelve personal interviews , six employees and six managers of a public administration, the interview answers were transcribed and thematised.Nineteen themes emerged that described how the open plan office impact on cohesion and leadership. Among these nineteen, thirteen themes were common , meaning that they occurred among both employees and managers to some extent. Six themes were explicit , meaning that they occurred only among either employees or managers. Five of the explicit themes occurred only among managers. The most frequent common theme underlying several cohesion and leadership enhancement factors were to sit together, which have a clear connection to the open plan office design.The open plan office was perceived to contribute to the cohesion at work in a positive way . However, there was a difference in the quality of depth between the groups in their answers. In the case of the impact on leadership , most managers and employees agree that the design contributed substantially to the manager's availability . There in was a difference between employees and managers , whether it was a positive or negative attribute . The study shows that there is a difficulty in determining where office design's influence ends and where the labor organization's impact begins.