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>millennials, who value more open, collaborative environments No. Give me an office that shuts where I can concentrate away from people without the visual and
by rjbwork 10y ago
>millennials, who value more open, collaborative environments
No. Give me an office that shuts where I can concentrate away from people without the visual and auditory distractions that come with them. This myth needs to die. Give us a collaborative meeting/commons space instead.
- loco5niner 10y agoAgreed. The Open Office has too many distractions for "focus work" to be possible.
- blackflame7000 10y agoSo true. Its only the extroverts who like this environment. Unfortunately they are often the loudest. I hate when I'm in the middle of something and my bored co-worker wants to use me to waste time.
- gentleteblor 10y agoI'd love an office. But i fear it might be too late to go back to private offices. Besides the open floors, open communications ra-ra spiel, i'm sure employers have noticed the cost savings in stuffing everyone together.
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- rjbwork 10y agoAnd they wonder why productivity is now decreasing, in a reverse from decades long increases - employers aren't willing to give their employees the resources to be productive.
- mc42 10y agoFrom the perspective of a student who got out of high-school, I got most of my work done in medium-sized group of individuals who actually wanted to work. Any more than 10 was useless and they began to chit-chat. Much fewer and people tended to make mistakes or forget things. Those 10 or so people could be paired off into 5 groups of 2 for practice of exams, or 3 groups of 3 (with one floater, or one group of 4) for more round-robin type work and collaboration. There is very much a reason the philosophers of old had a set class size of ~8, and why classrooms encourage "smaller" groups. The workplace should, in theory, value this more. However, in the sense of being "new and hip", I fear they've abandoned productive work to create "ideas".
- rjbwork 10y agoI appreciate the perspective, but apart from pair programming, programming is a solitary intellectual exercise that requires intense concentration for long periods of time. Now, software development is a team sport, but that coordination and "play time" (sport analogy ho!) needs to take place in a space dedicated to it. Programming shouldn't be forced to take place in the meeting space. Many other office/industrial pursuits are not like this, but the fact of the matter is that programming is.