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In an earlier job, we moved from a cubicle office to an open office. The open office was supposedly there to facilitate group work. But we were soon told that s
by Chathamization 11y ago
In an earlier job, we moved from a cubicle office to an open office. The open office was supposedly there to facilitate group work. But we were soon told that since everyone could hear and see what we were doing, we were no longer supposed to meet and talk with colleagues at our desks as we had been doing (too distracting for others).
- carlivar 11y agoCompanies rarely say what it really is: cost savings. Not only can you cram more people per square foot, cubicle walls cost money.
- marcosdumay 11y agoIn fact it's saving X from area A, where increasing the costs of area B by Y, where X is orders of magnitude smaller than Y, but the manager of B can still claim a bonus for the savings.
- taurath 11y agoI'm nervous to start conversations with the idle person next to me, because the person 2 desks over looks like they're concentrating and I don't want to knock them out of flow. What happens in our open office which is half engineering is that nobody says much of anything. It doesn't help collaberation. If we had cubes or god forbid OFFICES with CLOSABLE DOORS we could have 1-1 conversations whenever we like.