The typical factory design was always a two-story-high room, large and open, with the manager's office on the second floor and having large windows looking out

The typical factory design was always a two-story-high room, large and open, with the manager's office on the second floor and having large windows looking out over the factory floor. Manager can see you, but because of the angle, you can't see him. Open-plan people haven't cued into that yet, I suppose because of typical office buildings that only have 9 or 10 foot ceilings. But advances in camera technology should allow a single ceiling camera to be positioned over each cubical looking straight down without a lot of additional expense.