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The open office space plan is silly when "normal" companies want to imitate office cost saving from Silicon valley startups. I feel nobody really questioned why
by acd 5y ago
The open office space plan is silly when "normal" companies want to imitate office cost saving from Silicon valley startups. I feel nobody really questioned why.
Open floor plan is good for cost saving but not for anything else. Collaboration is less in open plan than a traditional office.
Here is Harvard research on Open Office plan
https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices
"When the firms switched to open offices, face-to-face interactions fell by 70%."
https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/bernstein-open-offices.aspx https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/bernstein-open-offic...
- Apocryphon 5y agoOn a tangential pop cultural note, I recently realized that The Office, perhaps the seminal '00s-'10s equivalent to '90s office drone dramas (Dilbert, Office Space, The Matrix, Fight Club and so forth - https://www.openculture.com/?p=1067238 https://www.openculture.com/?p=1067238), takes place in an open office. The employees of Dunder Mifflin have low cubicles that expose their sounds both to the viewers, and to each other. Not the best environment for concentration. Perhaps this has been an invasive trend that's common to white collar professions even beyond tech? And it's the defining hassle for white collar professionals of the present era.