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Open floor plans are ~80% of the time about cutting cost but only about ~20% of the time is this actually admitted by executives. There are plenty of problems a
by bayonetz 10y ago
Open floor plans are ~80% of the time about cutting cost but only about ~20% of the time is this actually admitted by executives. There are plenty of problems at my current job but being cattle caged in an open floor plan is not one of them. Almost 100% of the time my introverted self performs an order of magnitude better within the sweet sweet sanctuary of my door-locking, fully-enclosed, window-with-some-mountains-in-the-background office. To the point of feeling golden handcuffed by it. I'm sure I'm not a minority in this. I wonder why more companies don't pay the extra, yet in many cases workable, expense.
- virgilp 10y agoWhich is stupid. You pay me a fuckton of money, do you want me to spend time chitchatting about trivial stuff with the rest of my colleagues, or implementing features you need to release? What is really more expensive, the floor space or the lost productivity? (double-bonus points when you work in a "low cost" geography but still use open-plan office because US uses it and this is the corporate standard)