>The company that helped popularize open office plans and lavish employee perks somehow our BigCo got only open offices with the lavish perks lost in translati

>The company that helped popularize open office plans and lavish employee perks somehow our BigCo got only open offices with the lavish perks lost in translation. Anyway, it seems that Google is bringing cubicles (and even offices with the "focused work" pods - implicit recognition that "focused work" (is where other than focused work in programming?) is impacted by the open space office) while avoiding the cu-word and, God-forbid, the o-word.