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Healthcare? Hell, we just had our dental insurance dropped. Healthcare is now a $10k OOPM at rates 3x what they were 10 years ago. The open office plan could
by madengr 10y ago
Healthcare? Hell, we just had our dental insurance dropped. Healthcare is now a $10k OOPM at rates 3x what they were 10 years ago.
The open office plan could work with tall, fabric cubicles. My place now uses short, glass & aluminum ones. Not to mention people chit chat too much. I'm an EE and have to think about complex stuff; I can't think with the chit-chat; breaks my squelch.
Fortunately I have a lab I can retreat to. Thinking about moving in there permanently.
- ConceptJunkie 10y agoThose fabric cubicles absorb a lot of sound. I miss them.
- noir_lord 10y agoCubicles where original marketed as "Action Offices" there is a book on the history of them called Cubed: A secret history of the workplace. The creator of them came to regret his creation as they where subverted in a direction he never expected. I've often wondered what a modern cubicle if designed today would look like, we've done wonders in computer modeling and such since even sound dampening designs would be much easier.
- iamdave 10y agoA desk with a single wall in the front, behind where your displays would sit, and a frosted glass pane demarcating rows. "We're not an open design", but you don't exactly have anything remotely resembling a private workspace either.
- Arizhel 10y agoI used to have a private cubicle, around 2000-2004. I didn't like it too much at the time. I really miss it now. Life was better back then.