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25 years of this and not once has someone responsible for implementing the open plan included themselves in that plan. Sales and marketing somehow require offi
by LanceH 7y ago
25 years of this and not once has someone responsible for implementing the open plan included themselves in that plan. Sales and marketing somehow require offices as well. I've heard of the mythical "president in a cubicle" but never seen it.
I would really have more respect if they just came out and said, "we're going cheap."
- thecatspaw 7y agoOur sales and marketing is in an open floor plan actually. HR, however, is not.
- testvox 7y agoSame, HR and c level are the only ones left with real offices.
- nerdponx 7y agoI actually did see it. The CEO and VPs all had noise-canceling headphones.
- g051051 7y agoOur structure is low-level employees, like me -> squad lead -> tribe lead -> VP -> SVP -> CTO. VP and above have offices. SVP was the one who cancelled WFH. The open plan office thing predates the SVP and CTO, who are the main part of the new "leadership" that came in over the last year.
- Paul-ish 7y agoWhen I was an intern at Mozilla 2 years ago the open floorplan included the CEO.
- Izkata 7y agoFor us, everyone except HR and Accounts are on the open floor. Even the executives/VPs have to look for seating.
- akavi 7y agoNot true of any of the four places I've worked, startup and FAANG. Directors (at FAANG) and CEOs (at startups) sat at the same kind of desk the rest of us did (though of course, spent the vast majority of time in meetings)
- sillyquiet 7y agoOurs do sit in the same open-plan desks the rest of us do, but naturally (as others have remarked) they spend all of their time in meetings anyway and don't actually USE their desks. And again, naturally, they have a whole bunch of meeting rooms and 'private collaboration spaces' marked off for their exclusive use.
- CrossWired 7y agoActually saw it in practice, I toured KnowBe4's office, their entire C-suite is right there in the open office, a few at standing desk, but all right there in the open