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It's also very easy to "accidentally" put more people into a very large room than it would be allowed by working regulations. There's at least one large Silicon
by QuantumRoar 10y ago
It's also very easy to "accidentally" put more people into a very large room than it would be allowed by working regulations. There's at least one large Silicon Valley company who likes to do that. The working conditions can be quite miserable.
You can call it an open office that amplifies communication in the team, so noone will notice that they're almost piling up vertically. And the problem is not just noise. Too many people breathing the same air leads to rising carbon dioxide levels which makes concentrating quite hard. Unless the office was literally built for large crowds, the ventilation will usually be insufficient to cool the office in summer and to provide adequate levels of air flow.
I stopped calling those things "open offices" and use the term "laying battery" instead.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoWould that be the one who started putting interns in half-cubes in hallways? Where the biggest buildings might not be complying with the fire code?
- QuantumRoar 10y agoNo, I'm talking about something else which is actually a bit worse...
- dx034 10y agoI wouldn't use the term laying battery for a room where employees get salarys of (often) more than 5x the country's median to work there. I'd say no developer at Facebook was forced to work there, they all could easily get another job (maybe paid worse). It's purely their choice to work in this environment. I think the comparison with a laying battery isn't a really good fit here. What's described here is still a "first world problem", some people seem to forget that.