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The solution for open plans offices is to give everyone a real office.
by zitterbewegung 10y ago
The solution for open plans offices is to give everyone a real office.
- bigiain 10y agoI think the pendulum still has a way to swing yet. Quite a few places I know of are touting their new "activity based working" arrangements - which is HR/PR/Marketing speak for "hot desking, because rent is too expensive to even give you all your own desk in an open plan office, so you get to share desks and fight over what's left whenever you run late". Many of the people I know who I consider to be in the "10x developer/PM/designer" category start picking up all the recruiter calls as soon as that's announced. I _strongly_ suspect whoever got "implement ABW to reduce real estate costs" as one of their KPIs also snuck "reduce renumeration costs by organically cutting headcount" written into their end-of-year-bonus goals, while explicitly leaving out anything to do with productivity (or more likely, ensuring the "productivity" KPI got dropped onto a career-ladder-rival...)
- flukus 10y agoI could see hot desking work for companies that are mostly work from home. For some reason (probably the ones you listed) it gets cargo culted by companies that don't allow remote work.