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A coworking space sounds amazing compared to our current office setup, somehow management has landed on the the worst of all worlds. Teams are in horseshoe shap
by hamburgerkid 10y ago
A coworking space sounds amazing compared to our current office setup, somehow management has landed on the the worst of all worlds. Teams are in horseshoe shaped areas with managers in glass walled private offices facing into the horseshoe. The plain old worker scrubs like me, however, are in tiny cubicles that are about waist high within the horseshoe, and they have three people crammed into each cubicle in parts of the office. So you get all of the noise and lack of privacy of an open office layout (your manager is straight up watching your monitor from his or her private office), but we are on these crappy desktops so no mobility like one would have in an open office...
- richeyryan 10y agoSounds like someone in your office read about Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon and they were like "This guy just might be onto something." Do you plan to stay in that place? It doesn't sound like a very positive working environment.
- hamburgerkid 10y agoI think it began as an experiment in making the ultimate office. Everyone would have a quiet, private workspace, and the horseshoe space would be this reconfigurable area with couches and whiteboards for standups and meetings and the social aspects of business. Of course what happened was when the company grew, the idealistic horseshoe space turned into temporary overflow cubicles which quickly became permanent cubicles. > Do you plan to stay in that place? It doesn't sound like a very positive working environment. It is a tad Orwellian, so no, I'm out after a year or so. :)
- Arizhel 10y ago>It doesn't sound like a very positive working environment. From everything I've been reading, and what I've experienced myself, it seems to be the upcoming norm for working environments.
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