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No. Not if humans work there. There will always be politics, and what's more, they will be significantly impacted by factors seemingly as trivial as location
by logfromblammo 8y ago
No. Not if humans work there.
There will always be politics, and what's more, they will be significantly impacted by factors seemingly as trivial as location and geometry.
For example, if you have a large open workspace with square cubicles, flanked on either side by balconies with longer and narrower rectangular cubicles, you may find that the balcony employees will affect an air of cliquish superiority over the floor employees, and will furthermore form a rivalry pitting left balcony against right balcony.
Then, whatever mad scheme it is that forms organically out of the workspace geography, it will be propagated via the personnel, even after you move to a new office. There will always be something that subtly influences all the decisions not having a direct impact on the work. Whenever you try to extinguish one that has been allowed to grow toxic or rotten, another may creep up behind you to supplant it.
The dangerous thing is when a player consciously influences the natural politics to gain power over the workplace beyond that granted by the organizational hierarchy, or to secure a promotion. The probability of such an individual joining your group and upsetting the previous homeostasis during a given interval increases with the size of the company. If it is possible for someone to transfer in, cause chaos, and get promoted up or out, then that pattern will eventually be exploited.