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I am put in mind of the policy during the years when HP were a successful, growing company, that managers sat in open areas, while engineers sat in offices; the

I am put in mind of the policy during the years when HP were a successful, growing company, that managers sat in open areas, while engineers sat in offices; the managers' work is being available to their staff; staff needed to be able to focus on their work. This is just capitalism-is-feudalism bullshit.

astrange 5y ago
That probably works, but a downside is that you probably want privacy when having a 1:1, and if you only leave for a meeting room when it's a difficult conversation, then people are going to be able to tell. Also when I worked in a former HP building there weren't any windows in the offices, so that was depressing.