who created this garbage? its impossible to concentrate when multiple conversations are taking place in the background.
Some management/communication guru I presume. They probably wrote a book about it in a secluded lakehouse.
pop some headphones in and youre good. Didnt we have one of these like 2 months ago?
I love it. It’s mostly introverted people that hate it.
Don’t mind seeing the pieces of a$$ walking by.
fatal flaw – taking the office design used by technology and creative types and try to shoehorn every office using function into it. fucking retarded. even the tech employees are starting to HATE it as they’re realizing it is a clever way to minimize footprint costs and keep them in the office 14 hours a day.
It will take an office market crash for this to shake out. EVERY office developer and the money behind them is jumping on the ‘creative office’ bandwagon, suitability be damned. top-down retardation.
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^ Something similar to this. If not for headphones I would lose it.
This is so true. It might work in an environment like Google or Microsoft in SF but can’t really be applied to all departments everywhere. Not sure what you mean by footprint costs and how that keeps employees at the office but at my place, it was to reduce real estate space.
right, employees used to get on average 250 square feet of space per employee, today it’s like 150 - 175 and somehow they’ve convinced employees it’s cool to be crammed in. the 14 hour day is the amenities they provide which are designed to keep employees onsite longer.
When I open my office door, I see what you’re talking about.
#1stWorldProblems
Startups have open office because it is cheap to shove people into a garage to work. These so called operations research consultants mischaracterize this limitation as a feature that enhances productivity.
I believe the idea is that by removing barriers to communication (i.e. walls and doors) there is more interaction between employees and that interaction breeds creativity and innovation. At some point though, the creativity and innovation have to translate into viable products or services, which typically requires people working behind barriers to communication so they can actually get their job done.
I recently listened to a talk on this. According to this lecture, the research is clear that it’s terrible on productivity. Some have actually found it costs companies more than they save from the reduced space, which was one of the original reasons. Interestingly, even people who claim it benefits their work do worse when studied. So it seems we aren’t even fully aware of how bad it is on us.
impossible to duck out of the office at 3 pm anymore.
Lumbergh rolls up with an afternoon cuppa Joe in hand, “Hey Stallion”…
#WhatsHappening
probably a method to keep us all so distracted so that we dont recognize how meaningless our jobs are
#pessimist
I love open trading floor layout. Whether or not a company has that setup definitely factors into my decision regarding new job offers.
I worked at a place like that picture above - no cubicle walls, just all open. As an introvert who works best undisturbed it is definitely distracting as hell and reduced productivity. I left after 10 months but it was more due to job switch preference (off to the buy side!) than the environment. Although the environment certainly wasn’t a plus. Having my own office now I can work so much better.
The CEO also had a desk just like everyone else did. And this was a place with 1-2 thousand employees. Not a bad guy, but didn’t make us like him any more.
Hate those!
#proudintrovert
monkey is an introvert as well who loves these layouts.
when did introverts start equating to non sociable and loners anyway huh?