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Daily standup is a scam just like the "open office". Most of the time it turns into a beating stick for incompetent managers to feel good. They are both defen
by borplk 9y ago
Daily standup is a scam just like the "open office".
Most of the time it turns into a beating stick for incompetent managers to feel good.
They are both defended by people for various superficial theoretical reasons that never come to fruition.
Like they try to defend open office because "it's good for collaboration" but in reality it's only to cut down office costs and to let employees watch each other.
If giving people private offices was much cheaper you'd never in a million years see a company accept the increased cost of an open office just because "it's good for collaboration".
This is a pattern that you can notice easily in business. Anything undesirable that is not good for you will be applied a lip-stick of colorful language in order to "sell" it to you and it goes right into the echo chamber.
You can put people in boxes that stack on top of each other and then say "Our beautiful stacked-box office promotes a culture of deep thinking and solitude where you can re-gain your focus and stay away from constant distractions.".
- dasmoth 9y agoIf giving people private offices was much cheaper you'd never in a million years see a company accept the increased cost of an open office just because "it's good for collaboration". Were this testable, I'd absolutely take the other side of this bet. (Some) managers get too much satisfaction out of seeing their "doers" lined up and visibly working. And/or believe that watching one another makes people work harder. Open offices would happen, even at a premium. Edit: actually, it kind-of is testable. If office costs were the biggest factor in how workers were deployed, we'd see far more remote work. You can put people in boxes that stack on top of each other and then say "Our beautiful stacked-box office promotes a culture of deep thinking and solitude where you can re-gain your focus and stay away from constant distractions.". Please tell me when you open one of these, I might be after a job!