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> The office is the fermenting ground for people growing into successful adults. This makes me scream in my head. Do we really believe this? Should we really b

> The office is the fermenting ground for people growing into successful adults. This makes me scream in my head. Do we really believe this? Should we really believe this? Have there been no successful adults who were not fermented in an office?

lkxijlewlf 5y ago
Google fermented in a garage at first, right?
zepto 5y ago
From the point of the corporate hierarchy, by definition you are not successful if you do not have an executive rank. Therefore only those who have been fermented in the vat, can be considered successful.
buscoquadnary 5y ago
Once you are in the workplace shouldn't you already be an adult by that point?
- vanusa 5y ago
  If that company is Google, apparently not.
AlexandrB 5y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” This article is an interview with an architect who designs offices for large corporations. He has to believe this, otherwise he's out of a job.
- mc32 5y ago
  Very much like time manager sessions, collaboration sessions and other assigned trainings. the majority of that imparted is fluff. Occasionally you get a nugget, but by and large, it's not for these nuggets that these people become "experts" in a particular domain but rather they are perpetuating their parasitic relationship with companies.
- miojmoimoi 5y ago
  I'm certain he doesn't need to work another day in his life.
mrtksn 5y ago
I wouldn't read too much into it. He talks about the next step of people freshly out of college being offices where they grow to be adults with careers. I don't think that he is trying to make a sociological statement but to emphasise the impact of the offices on peoples development. IMHO open plan offices are a fermenting ground for burned out adults asking themselves at what point they will have a personal space like a grown up.

lkxijlewlf 5y ago

Google fermented in a garage at first, right?

zepto 5y ago

From the point of the corporate hierarchy, by definition you are not successful if you do not have an executive rank. Therefore only those who have been fermented in the vat, can be considered successful.

buscoquadnary 5y ago

Once you are in the workplace shouldn't you already be an adult by that point?

vanusa 5y ago
If that company is Google, apparently not.

AlexandrB 5y ago

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” This article is an interview with an architect who designs offices for large corporations. He has to believe this, otherwise he's out of a job.

mc32 5y ago
Very much like time manager sessions, collaboration sessions and other assigned trainings. the majority of that imparted is fluff. Occasionally you get a nugget, but by and large, it's not for these nuggets that these people become "experts" in a particular domain but rather they are perpetuating their parasitic relationship with companies.
miojmoimoi 5y ago
I'm certain he doesn't need to work another day in his life.

mrtksn 5y ago

I wouldn't read too much into it. He talks about the next step of people freshly out of college being offices where they grow to be adults with careers. I don't think that he is trying to make a sociological statement but to emphasise the impact of the offices on peoples development. IMHO open plan offices are a fermenting ground for burned out adults asking themselves at what point they will have a personal space like a grown up.