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Isn’t an alternative explanation that companies locate people that need to communicate near each other? Why would we assume you are equally likely to want to co
by zeroonetwothree 4y ago
Isn’t an alternative explanation that companies locate people that need to communicate near each other? Why would we assume you are equally likely to want to communicate with every other employee.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoThat assumption was not made by GP. A sufficiently large company will encounter this problem no matter how well they try to solve the NP-hard problem of efficiently allocating workspaces.
- BlargMcLarg 4y agoNo. Many companies group by discipline. A self sufficient actor rarely needs to talk with someone else just for sharing the same discipline. On the other hand, having no one to relate to can also be a problem, and enough people are not consistently self sufficient to make grouping trivial. Then you couple that with the fact companies love one-size-fits-all solutions.
- koheripbal 4y agoThis 100%. We reliably shuffled people to keep them with their teams on a constant basis.