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I dunno, I prefer cubicles to open space. Some privacy is better than no privacy at all.

• dreish 18y ago
  To each his own of course, but to me they offer just enough privacy to breed mistrust, and just enough exposure to feed paranoia. It's hard to tease out a central thesis from this article, but I think I would focus on the claim that offices are part of a bureaucratic system that is slowed by paperwork, and that pushing people together encourages them to wander over and chat about work rather than constantly draft memos. I think that view is out of date, in the age of email and IM. Cubicles divide people enough that they don't feel like they're side-by-side on a team, yet distract technical workers and break their concentration.
• edw519 18y ago
  "I prefer cubicles to open space." You'd think so. I'm just remembering the projects where we got the most done. Which were also the most fun (go figure). One was a 20 x 15 room with 4 desks and a white board. Another was one big table with 4 of us facing each other. (When I had to be alone, I went out to my RV in the parking lot.) Another was a conference room with a long table and a bunch of laptops. We used to call these "war rooms". (Why is it when we really have to get something done, we throw each other together in a "war room". The rest of the time, we sit in soulless offices and cubicles?)