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Office sucks. Let me list a few things: - Hot desks - People laughing and constantly talking while you are trying to focus - Unstable temperature making you f
by ultim8k 4y ago
Office sucks.
Let me list a few things:
- Hot desks
- People laughing and constantly talking while you are trying to focus
- Unstable temperature making you freeze or boil
- Uncomfortable and unhealthy desks/chairs
- Often lack of proper screens/equipment
- Getting squeezed in trains to commute - spending at best an extra hour per day
- Unhealthy and expensive dietary options around work
- Contamination of diseases
- Useless meetings and team activities that usually produce zero value
Not to mention how bad this is for the environment.
And no, a ping-pong or foosball table doesn't make the office cool. It's like adding chocolate syrup on a rotten fruit to make it edible.
- jmspring 4y agoWhile at Skype - open offices were a thing - someone thought it was beneficial to have people testing A/V as well as video standup areas (dispersed teams) in the same areas people were trying to get work done.
- alistairSH 4y agoTotally agree. I feel like the ideal balance would be 2x/month office visits to coordinate/meet/socialize. And WFH the rest of the time. But, at the same time, I don’t want to limit my hiring to the local market (and 4/6 of my team are fully remote), so WFH/remote it is. Really, I just miss social lunches and a bit of water-cooler gossip. I should try to convince my two local employees to meet for a snack sometime and call it good enough. Edit - I don’t remotely miss the open office at my employer. Worst idea ever. Directors and VPs hog the conference rooms, leaving me (line manager) to roam around looking for private spaces to talk to employees. Dumb dumb dumb. End rant.
- voisin 4y agoSee I think the issue is the design of offices have become shit. Less and less space per employee and no privacy. It’s abhorrent, and it is this design philosophy that people are primarily raging against. Hot desking? It is laughably inhumane that anyone thought people would be happy with this.
- dan-robertson 4y agoIt sounds like you just have a bad office though. Eg I don’t hot-desk; if I had a problem with my chair I could ask for a different one (e.g. something like an aeron or something wacky looking); I have good screens and for most equipment I could just ask for something if I needed it. It’s typically easier to get these things in the office than at home and certain necessary upgrades for working from home (eg faster Internet, dedicated office space) could be very expensive and/or impossible without moving.