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I'm a remote worker, but I rent a desk just around the corner from my house (5 minutes by bicycle). I get the best of both worlds. I still get the important so

by junto 11y ago

I'm a remote worker, but I rent a desk just around the corner from my house (5 minutes by bicycle). I get the best of both worlds. I still get the important social effects of working in an office space, but I do it on my terms and without the long commute. For the usual day in day out coding, I think that this should be the future of workplaces. People who work together have little need to be in the same physical location these days.

cableshaft 11y ago
I seriously think instead of centralized office space there should just be a bunch of coworking spaces. You pick one that's convenient for you, and your employer subsidizes it instead of paying for the giant office space for you to come in to work. But I think part of the problem is that giant office space is psychologically useful when you're bringing in potential clients for business (or judging how successful of a company you are). The managers want an office full of busy worker bees so they can show off their workspace to clients and the world. Even small startups are guilty of this, although usually they want to show their workplace off as being cool and having fun things like game consoles, ping pong tables, and bean bag chairs. Basically we need a different way for managers to show off. Maybe they can just create some giant park with amazing sculptures as they grow to show off how impressive they are. Maybe have a single conference room in the center of a hedge maze for when those important clients come visit the office.
- nickpsecurity 11y ago
  "Basically we need a different way for managers to show off. Maybe they can just create some giant park with amazing sculptures as they grow to show off how impressive they are. Maybe have a single conference room in the center of a hedge maze for when those important clients come visit the office." I couldn't help laughing imagining this one. Thanks for that. "Over there are the computers connecting our 2,000 strong workforce around the world. Over here is a sculpture I made of them out of GI Joe's and Lego's. It took nearly 7 hours of an 8 hour workday for several months straight to build this. Next year, I'm going to re-do it in Minecraft and display it on a wall-sized TV in the lobby." "Wow. That's really impressive productivity you people have over here. We'll buy your mainframe. Or was it a cloud? Bah, send us the invoice to our new Gmail account as the Yahoo Mail one you have on file was deleted after Microsoft's acquisition of it."

by junto 11y ago

cableshaft 11y ago

I seriously think instead of centralized office space there should just be a bunch of coworking spaces. You pick one that's convenient for you, and your employer subsidizes it instead of paying for the giant office space for you to come in to work. But I think part of the problem is that giant office space is psychologically useful when you're bringing in potential clients for business (or judging how successful of a company you are). The managers want an office full of busy worker bees so they can show off their workspace to clients and the world. Even small startups are guilty of this, although usually they want to show their workplace off as being cool and having fun things like game consoles, ping pong tables, and bean bag chairs. Basically we need a different way for managers to show off. Maybe they can just create some giant park with amazing sculptures as they grow to show off how impressive they are. Maybe have a single conference room in the center of a hedge maze for when those important clients come visit the office.

nickpsecurity 11y ago
"Basically we need a different way for managers to show off. Maybe they can just create some giant park with amazing sculptures as they grow to show off how impressive they are. Maybe have a single conference room in the center of a hedge maze for when those important clients come visit the office." I couldn't help laughing imagining this one. Thanks for that. "Over there are the computers connecting our 2,000 strong workforce around the world. Over here is a sculpture I made of them out of GI Joe's and Lego's. It took nearly 7 hours of an 8 hour workday for several months straight to build this. Next year, I'm going to re-do it in Minecraft and display it on a wall-sized TV in the lobby." "Wow. That's really impressive productivity you people have over here. We'll buy your mainframe. Or was it a cloud? Bah, send us the invoice to our new Gmail account as the Yahoo Mail one you have on file was deleted after Microsoft's acquisition of it."