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The offices in the picture(s) don't look very private to me, more like glass cubicles with the larger (but transparent) partitions. Combined with people having
by senko 5y ago
The offices in the picture(s) don't look very private to me, more like glass cubicles with the larger (but transparent) partitions.
Combined with people having their backs to (open, or in any case transparent) doors, this is very different from what I'd consider a "private" office.
If I were in charge of that place, I'd at least put semitransparent/frosted glass covering on the glass panels there so you can see if the room is occupied but can't peer behind someone's shoulder.
Also depends on the type of panel used, but such large surface glass panels are terrible at sound isolation...
- BruiseLee 5y agoRight. Anyone passing by can look at employees' monitors. So they feel the pressure to "look busy" at all times - not much difference from open office.
- tombert 5y agoI think it's still a little better. You probably get a bit of noise isolation that you wouldn't otherwise have. At Apple, whenever I had to fly to California, they had similar glass offices like this, and I was always amazed at how well they actually isolated sound. People would chat in the office, and you'd only hear some muffled speech, which wasn't really enough to be distracting. I cannot speak for Stackexchange but presumably they use similar styles of glass office?
- JohnFen 5y agoYeah, a glass-walled office doesn't really cut it. Although perhaps there's some sound reduction, for me, it's still no better than a cube.