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I was dead wrong about the open office layout: I was an advocate, but I now see that over time, for any company larger than a garage startup, it ends becoming a
by carsongross 9y ago
I was dead wrong about the open office layout: I was an advocate, but I now see that over time, for any company larger than a garage startup, it ends becoming a way to cut costs and pack more employees per square foot. It isn't worse than cube-farms, but it isn't much better.
I wonder if per-team offices of 2-5 people around a central hub would actually hit the right balance between interaction and think time.
- jdc0589 9y agoI think its worse than cube farms, way worse. In a cube you have some modicum of isolation, even if its just a physical barrier to keep from seeing 100% of the movement/traffic around your workspace. In an open environment, literally everything is a distraction. The only time I've been content-ish in an open environment is when I happened to be facing a corner.