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In addition open offices: * Are usually cheaper * Look good in photo ops and publicity: "Look how much everyone is working together _all the time_. So much ac

by rdtsc 10y ago

In addition open offices: * Are usually cheaper * Look good in photo ops and publicity: "Look how much everyone is working together _all the time_. So much activity happening! We are not like those places with loners and antisocial people hiding in cubicles" * Cubicles were used to be associated with boring, slow bureaucratic offices. Those 4 things conspire to make them more popular. I think it is simpler a function of them being cheaper in general and everything else is just justification. But in case Facebook, can't imagine they don't have the money... Well I am glad this is changing though. There seems to be a backlash against open offices lately.

amyjess 10y ago
> Cubicles were used to be associated with boring, slow bureaucratic offices. Honestly, I'd rather work in a "boring, slow bureaucratic office" than at some hip modern startup. The "boring, slow bureaucratic office" probably takes better care of their employees and offers a less-stressful work environment.
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- yarou 10y ago
  The former is intellectual suicide, the latter, philosophical suicide.
JBlue42 10y ago
It also keeps people working longer than maybe they want to. I've heard from several folks in one of our more open areas (15-20 people) that it's awkward to leave at the usual end of shift time because they have to walk across a room filled with people still grinding away.