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It's insane. Not to mention how much friction it causes for no good reason. How do you even have this conversation with your neighbor without seeming high strun
by overgard 10y ago
It's insane. Not to mention how much friction it causes for no good reason. How do you even have this conversation with your neighbor without seeming high strung: "I don't dislike you as a person but your loud typing, constant sniffling and loud chewing habits make me want to put a pillow over your face when you're asleep."
- jsmeaton 10y agoSee hotdesking. An agile work environment lets you avoid this confrontation by picking up and going to sit between two of the sales team.
- mattmanser 10y agoIs this a joke or are you being serious? If your sales people do any work, they're incredibly noisy by being on the phone all the time.
- mhluongo 10y ago...joke- hotdesking is also called out in the article.
- jsmeaton 10y agoI was wondering if the joke was a little too dry, but yes it's a joke. Our workplace recently converted to an "agile workspace" and I have sales people sitting across from me regularly on the phone. :(
- douche 10y ago> If your sales people do any work This might be the joke
- noarchy 10y agoYou nearly had me for a second there. I could almost see that coming out of the mouth of a Scrum evangelist.
- nickthemagicman 10y agoSounds very similar to chili dogging.
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoI think it was done to save money at some point, and then because so many people do it, it seems like the right thing to do now. Yet everyone who happens to get a chance at an office wants it.
- coliveira 10y agoI have met people who never had an office, so they thing that open office is great and wound't want an office...
- drstewart 10y agoI worked at a place with my own office and at open plan offices and much prefer the latter, but thank you for your condescension.
- NotSammyHagar 10y agoOkay, well I guess I am corrected, there are people who like open offices. I didn't mean it to be condescending. I have a number of friends who are devs, and they had a similar feeling to me and we made a mistake in assuming that our experience was universal (a common mistake :-)).
- p4wnc6 10y agoIt's been well-known since at least the time when Peopleware was first published (so at least several decades) that open-plan office designs don't actually save money. Not even in dense urban areas. Not even over short time periods like 1 year. In order to believe that they do, you essentially have to have such an unrealistically hyperbolic discount function that you believe marginal productivity of your workers is nearly worthless compared to the up-front costs of the real estate.
- pitay 10y agoSometimes it is not done to save money. At my previous workplace we had a new CEO come in 4 years ago. 1st. She trashed talked what was done before. 2nd. she took away any coffee or tea provided for employees to use, saying it cost $10000 a year to provide them. 3rd. Then she got a plan for a complete renovation of the office space, so executive officers had offices in the middle of the building that looked out over what would be open plan offices, so that no-one had the slightest bit of privacy at all. This was not done to fit more people in. 4th. Then a move to a completely different state in the country was being talked about. I am glad I don't work there any more. Edit: Formatting.
- chris_wot 10y agoWorking with a serial desk-napper eh?