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Has anyone tried "free choice"? My suspicion is that it won't irk brillantly because even the loudest open-plan advocates generally perceive private offices as
by dasmoth 10y ago
Has anyone tried "free choice"? My suspicion is that it won't irk brillantly because even the loudest open-plan advocates generally perceive private offices as higher-status.
Also, once people are in separate offfices you do need to think about information exchange slightly more actively (a good thing IMO -- but potentially a bit of a shift for the folks who find open plan, listen-in-on-everything to work well)
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoThat's exactly right - the decision is made on status lines instead on practical consideration. And it's not the sort of "status" HN'ers prefer :)
- douche 10y agoDeliberate communication is, I have experienced, usually a whole lot higher quality than ad-hoc, informal "collaboration". Let people go away and think about it, do their homework, and come back with backed-up, researched, opinions. Or, you know, you can just interrupt everybody for a useless bike-shedding session at the drop of a hat.
- dasmoth 10y ago> Deliberate communication is, I have experienced, usually a whole lot higher quality than ad-hoc, informal "collaboration". Definitely.