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I can't picture anything more boring than being stuck in my own office all they. Might as well work from home, then. At least I then can wear sweatpants. Not t

I can't picture anything more boring than being stuck in my own office all they. Might as well work from home, then. At least I then can wear sweatpants. Not that I want open offices. But I want to talk to my colleagues, collaborate, hear their discussions and chime in, shoot the shit etc. So a small office for the team is perfect. 6-8 persons.

Consultant32452 5y ago
The only question that matters is will you force me to work in the conditions you prefer against my will?
- matsemann 5y ago
  Why assume ill intent by me..? I'm just stating my opinion, which differs from others here in similar vein then "forcing" separate offices on everyone. Where I work now we have a team room, we also have offices/boxes people can use if they want to be undisturbed for a few hours. But mostly I just stay home a day or two a week for that kind of work.
Viliam1234 5y ago
> So a small office for the team is perfect. 6-8 persons. To start with the obvious, anything would be a huge improvement over what we have now. When I try to imagine how I would feel about working in such office, I guess it would depend on its size and layout. I have both good and bad experience with the "one room per team" setting. In the bad case, the team members were so cramped that you sometimes couldn't put a book on your desk, because the other guy then couldn't freely move his mouse. Also, people were sitting so close to each other that everyone had their neighbors' monitors in peripheral vision. In the good case, everyone's desk was as wide as they could stretch their hands, with some space between the desks. Also, the room had a window that you could actually open.
JohnFen 5y ago
When I've worked at places where everyone had their own office, we still had plenty of interaction with coworkers of the sort you want. They way it always worked was that people kept their doors open unless they has a real need to be left alone. So you still heard discussions, you'd still get serendipitous discussions, etc. The difference was that you could also make all that stop when you needed to.

Consultant32452 5y ago

The only question that matters is will you force me to work in the conditions you prefer against my will?

matsemann 5y ago
Why assume ill intent by me..? I'm just stating my opinion, which differs from others here in similar vein then "forcing" separate offices on everyone. Where I work now we have a team room, we also have offices/boxes people can use if they want to be undisturbed for a few hours. But mostly I just stay home a day or two a week for that kind of work.

Viliam1234 5y ago

> So a small office for the team is perfect. 6-8 persons. To start with the obvious, anything would be a huge improvement over what we have now. When I try to imagine how I would feel about working in such office, I guess it would depend on its size and layout. I have both good and bad experience with the "one room per team" setting. In the bad case, the team members were so cramped that you sometimes couldn't put a book on your desk, because the other guy then couldn't freely move his mouse. Also, people were sitting so close to each other that everyone had their neighbors' monitors in peripheral vision. In the good case, everyone's desk was as wide as they could stretch their hands, with some space between the desks. Also, the room had a window that you could actually open.

JohnFen 5y ago

When I've worked at places where everyone had their own office, we still had plenty of interaction with coworkers of the sort you want. They way it always worked was that people kept their doors open unless they has a real need to be left alone. So you still heard discussions, you'd still get serendipitous discussions, etc. The difference was that you could also make all that stop when you needed to.