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I had an office with a door for 12 years. I switched jobs 3 years ago and everyone has a cubicle even the managers. Constant distractions with people talking
by lizknope 4y ago
I had an office with a door for 12 years. I switched jobs 3 years ago and everyone has a cubicle even the managers.
Constant distractions with people talking loudly on conference calls. Then someone else talks even louder on their call.
Before covid our site was mostly working on the same project. There was some fun collaboration in the conference room around white boards etc.
We had a reorg to pool resources across projects across the country so now only 3 out of 10 people on my project are at my site.
Most of us bought our own 40" 4K monitors so if I go in a conference room I can't even share my remote Linux desktop session properly because I'm scrolling within the window to find my applications to share.
Because of that I just stay at my cubicle to share my screen and end up disturbing everyone else around me with my own conference call.
Everything would be fine with offices and doors but instead we get stupid surveys about whether we want an open floorplan which is even worse.
We are supposed to go in the office 3 days a week. The reality is most people at my site show up once or twice a week for half a day for the free lunch once a week and then go home by 3pm to get work done.
We have 30 job openings and we hire about 1 person every 2 months. We lose 1 person about every 4 months. Management hasn't said anything about people not showing up probably because they don't want to push people to leave.
- dijit 4y agoI worked in open offices for 10 years. I’d kill for a cubicle. Everyone is different of course but open offices, lack of visual privacy, lack of personal space, it just drains me.
- waynesonfire 4y agoYeah, the bean counters really dug themselves in with the open office cost saving strategy. Just makes the office that much worse.
- zelos 4y agoI agree - in a UK open office I’m maybe 2 metres from a coworker if we both squeezed to opposite ends of our desks. Headphones are the only way to get any work done. Our US colleagues have acres of space in comparison.
- alliao 4y agoi worked for a blue chip finance dept in mayfair a lifetime ago, squeezed maybe 25 of us in a room no bigger than say 35m^2 i could literally elbow my colleagues
- waynesonfire 4y agoMm interesting.. I wonder if an office would entice me to go back.