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Sufficient research and PR efforts to finally refute open-plan office designs and render it intractable for firms to use open hypocrisy to disingenuously justif
by mlthoughts2018 7y ago
Sufficient research and PR efforts to finally refute open-plan office designs and render it intractable for firms to use open hypocrisy to disingenuously justify them without consequence as they do today.
Because this affects cognitive health and productivity of just about every tech employee, it truly is the biggest problem and is no overstatement at all that we would cure more diseases, feed more hungry people, develop better policies for people in need, or even just satisfy consumer demands more profitably, if the scourge of open-plan offices finally goes away.
Very few other problems faced by engineering workers are so vast and systemic as open-plan offices, with such far reaching value if it is solved.