Before reading the article, I predicted that it would end up being an office that was like most people would want, as the workers. Instead, I find that it's a

Before reading the article, I predicted that it would end up being an office that was like most people would want, as the workers. Instead, I find that it's a typical office that made a ton of mistakes and changed things just enough to get by. And, much like I predicted, those changes were things that most people would be happy about. It's pretty predictable that being told to clean off your desks, and then coming in the next week to a completely redesigned office would be off-putting for a lot of people. They don't need to be on the spectrum for that to be a stressful situation. Maybe many people shrug it off pretty quickly, but they shouldn't have to. Just freaking tell them what's going on. And since it's their workspace, maybe even let them in on the redesign during the planning, too. I was surprised that offices weren't a thing, and they still tried to do cubicles. And their employees were forced to do things like put monitors between each other to stop their perfectly normal behaviors from getting on each others nerves. At my previous job, the CEO put in really expensive lights that we didn't ask for. Because they were expensive, he got upset when we turned them off and insisted we leave them on. We did, but we didn't like it. We even put up cloth to block some of the light for those who really hated it. When we got moved to another part of the building without the special lights, we turned them off and that was suddenly okay. Ugh. In short, I think most of the stuff in the article applies to people in general, and it'd sure be nice if managers would realize that.