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It's amazing that it takes a deadly global pandemic for companies to finally abandon this very poor organizational tactic, not years of reduced productivity, in
by chadlavi 6y ago
It's amazing that it takes a deadly global pandemic for companies to finally abandon this very poor organizational tactic, not years of reduced productivity, increased worker stress, and (in environments where it wouldn't endanger workers' careers) constant complaints.
- folkhack 6y agoIt was never about productivity or the worker. It's a well studied thing that there's a steep drop in productivity when moving from closed-offices to open plans. I think it's a foggy cloud of reasons this came to be such a fad, from cost savings in floorspace/etc., to managers wanting to micro-manage butts-in-chairs, to the cargo-cult-esque promotion of it, etc. In America, color me "not surprised" that it takes something outstanding like COVID to move the needle in the corporate sector.