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"... Very true. Just moving everybody into their own offices can destroy interaction. Its as bad as communicating solely by email. ..." An office with a door,
by bootload 16y ago
"... Very true. Just moving everybody into their own offices can destroy interaction. Its as bad as communicating solely by email. ..."
An office with a door, no interaction and communicating by email is a hacker dream.
- abalashov 16y agoDepends on with whom, I think. With management, and colleagues in non-engineering departments, absolutely. But with coworkers on their own team who are hopefully their buddies, I don't think this is true. I had the enormous privilege of having met some incredibly interesting people by working with them, and being able to talk with them - whether "productively" or not (there was plenty of both) - was one of the best and most enduring aspects of the job.