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The interesting thing is just four years ago, Writer Nikil Saval penned his book on cubicles and postulated about why cubicles made us all miserable and opined
by at-fates-hands 8y ago
The interesting thing is just four years ago, Writer Nikil Saval penned his book on cubicles and postulated about why cubicles made us all miserable and opined for more open office spaces:
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/our-cubicles-ourselves-how-the-modern-office-shapes-american-life/360613/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/our-cub...
Four years later and we still see plenty of backlash from the open office concept. Is there a sweet spot somewhere in the middle, or will there be a sort of hybrid cubicle/open office concept in the near future?
I'm curious to see what the future holds for office spaces if neither of these are decent solutions.
- chiefalchemist 8y agoPerhaps the environment is being (wrongly) blamed for what are ultimately culture and leadership issues? Seems likely, yes.
- stevenwoo 8y agoMy recollection is Peopleware lists as an anecdote a Coding War Games study (not alot of data is in the book) where they pit team against team in different work environments, the study is about 30 years old at this point and as far as I know, no one has bothered to either recreate or disprove it. It showed a clear winner in terms of work environments (which was written by one of the book authors so it agreed with the general sentiments of the book.)
- saagarjha 8y agoI worked for a while in a what you might consider a hybrid system: small rooms of around a dozen people. Usually you don’t have problems of noise or distractions, since there isn’t that much going on, but you can quickly ask people about your issues without even getting up.