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Here's a photo of the newsroom so you can get a sense of the degree to which they work in proximity: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/18/opinion/sunday/
by elicash 6y ago
Here's a photo of the newsroom so you can get a sense of the degree to which they work in proximity:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/18/opinion/sunday/18pubed/18pubed-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/12/18/opinion/sunday/18...
- jmalicki 6y agoSo unlike a modern tech company, they sit farther apart and at least have barriers between their desks?
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- gruez 6y agoagree on the bigger desks bit, but what difference does a 12" tall barrier make?
- Rebelgecko 6y agoIn addition to the privacy aspect, it probably helps reduce the travel distance of any particles that one exhales
- ardy42 6y ago> In addition to the privacy aspect, it probably helps reduce the travel distance of any particles that one exhales Maybe a little bit, but I'd think you'd want barriers that are at least head-height if you wanted to to that.
- dannyw 6y agoCOVID? Not a lot. But normal office work? Just a little bit of privacy. Enough so that casually glancing at what someone else is doing is discouraged. But also, not enough so that communication is too discouraged.
- ardy42 6y ago> agree on the bigger desks bit, but what difference does a 12" tall barrier make? It keeps your neighbor's shit from spilling over onto your desk, necessitating an awkward conversation (at the minimum). It also gives you a surface to attach taller, jury-rigged barriers, if you're so inclined.
- ThePadawan 6y agoAt the last open office I worked at, you could hear people have conversations 8 desks down. I would have quite liked 7 barriers between me and them.
- mFixman 6y agoMost modern tech companies have a single height-adjustable desk per person, so most of the time your desk will be slightly higher or lower than your neighbour's.
- closeparen 6y agoAll the tech offices I have worked in or visited for Meetup groups are long shared benches. How much linear space you get depends on how fast the team is hiring, whether there are interns right now, etc.
- donohoe 6y agoNo, thats just the core newsroom which is floors 2 and 3. Rest of the floors are a little different.
- Krasnol 6y agoWhat a nightmare. Now imagine half of them being on the phone....terrible.
- jrockway 6y agoI don't think they do the same kind of work that we do.
- catacombs 6y agoThey certainly do not.
- ghaff 6y agoPeople are on the phone much of the day in lots of jobs. And the newsroom in that picture isn't some modern open office fad. Go look at any film that's concerned with the newspaper business. It's more or less how newsrooms have looked for many decades.
- spyspy 6y agoIt's surprisingly quiet actually. It's not a trading floor with people screaming at each other. Source: am a former NYT and worked in that exact room.
- jkaptur 6y agoFYI, most trading floors are very quiet as well, for mostly the same reasons.
- spyspy 6y agoYou're probably right, my imagination of trading floors is born from financial movies set in the 80s.
- Shoreleave 6y agoSeconding. Other than 10 minutes surrounding 9:30 and 4, the trading floors I've worked on have been quieter than any tech company I've worked for.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI wonder if that's a great representation? They're all posing for the photo, there may normally be less people there.
- elicash 6y agoI just meant desk setup. Context of the photo was a celebration of Alissa Rubin winning a Pulitzer in April 2016.
- spyspy 6y agoThat's actually pretty outdated. The newsroom (and all other floors at 620 8th Ave) have gotten standing desks that are slightly wider apart. Source: used to work in that newsroom
- kevindong 6y agoThat honestly looks more cramped than any office I've ever been in.
- dijit 6y agoI thought the same thing initially; it looks terribly cramped. But the longer I look at the picture, the more I realise that they have more personal space, sound isolation and visual privacy than I have in my office.
- kzrdude 6y agoThey have their own desks, instead of "clean" desks, so that's something.