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It is really strange to me that anti-open-office people (and in general anti-office people) often don't understand (or don't believe?) that other people just ha
by ajkjk 5y ago
It is really strange to me that anti-open-office people (and in general anti-office people) often don't understand (or don't believe?) that other people just have radically different preferences to them.
- closeparen 5y agoA “closed” office design includes private inner sanctums, small group common areas, and large group common areas. Think academia: my grad student friends have shared or sometimes private offices in little clusters of 5 that surround a small conference room or lounge. Then down the hall is the big department lounge. A much greater range of preferences are satisfiable with this layout. The same people are also allowed to have varying preferences depending on the time of day or phase of project, and to wander with their laptops.
- ajkjk 5y agoI'm not arguing that offices shouldn't have closed spaces, I'm arguing that there exist people who like open offices, despite the weird remarks in this thread from people who think that, like, only managers would.