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This is so spot on it hurts. Get out while you can! I switched from tech startups to consulting and have never been happier.

• philipov 7y ago
  I also do consulting, but the clients whose offices I visit still have open plan offices :p
  • flukus 7y ago
    Yeah, if you think it's bad in tech you should see what it's like in companies with less highly paid, less valued employees, especially in jobs that actually do benefit from constant collaboration.
    • solotronics 7y ago
      In one of our colo buildings there is a call center for some online pet company. They not only have an open office plan they have fully transparent glass walls all the way around the outside of their office space! You can watch everyone at once even from outside. It's weird. Even more authoritarian is the multiple armed guards and the obvious undisguised metal detector at the front door. I think the management there is dreaming of a similar level of control as a North Korean party leader.
    • mattkrause 7y ago
      I work in a research institute that is moving towards bigger and bigger open offices. It’s maddening. It does make it fairly clear how much the higher-ups value “innovation” versus the actual work of discovering stuff.