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The only people who want the open office are the people who either don't want to pay for cubicles, or want to cram more people into a space (worker density) tha
by lenjaffe 9y ago
The only people who want the open office are the people who either don't want to pay for cubicles, or want to cram more people into a space (worker density) than a cube farm will allow.
- baddox 9y agoOr they don't want to feel like I'm [0] locked in a room alone for absolutely no reason. [0] Oops, we were using "they."
- abawany 9y agoBut if you want to kill the alone-ness, all you have to do is step out. Heck, people used to pair program in cubes long before this open space disease (sorry, my opinion). For those of us that are unable to function in the cage-free farm, our only option is to destroy our hearing with headphones to try to get some work done.
- baddox 9y agoStep out to where exactly? Generally it's not just you in your own office, everyone else is too.
- abawany 9y agoI think I misunderstood your original comment 'Or they don't want to feel like I'm [0] locked in a room alone for absolutely no reason.'. I took it to mean that cubicles/offices cause loneliness. I now see that what you were saying is that the reason people are stuffed in the bullpen is the 'concern' that you outlined.
- rayiner 9y agoStep out and walk around? Where I work, we have private offices, but people have self segregated into a chatty end of the hallway, and "Siberia."
- rpeden 9y agoMaybe a hub-and-spoke type of setup like Bell Labs had? Cal Newport wrote a bit about it in Deep Work [1] and I think it sounds like a potential way to get the best of both worlds. [1] https://medium.com/@GrandCentralPub/excerpted-from-deep-work-by-cal-newport-f58adfb24fd0 https://medium.com/@GrandCentralPub/excerpted-from-deep-work...