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Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy Office
- cplusplusfellow 4y agoOr just work from home.
- metadat 4y agoCan I purchase some of these for my house?
- hiyer 4y agoYes - https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-freestanding-gray-40466935/ https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-freestanding-gray-...
- plaguepilled 4y agoThe cheaper and less combative solution is to of course just let people work remotely. But returning to the office is about the power relationship (e.g. its awkward to try and scold someone who can step away from the computer, so managers don't like it), so of course that's not an option.
- aaron695 4y ago[dead]
- andrewfromx 4y agoI cut together the best pieces from Marc and Adam's talk about the future of the office: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTHMwJ8kzjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTHMwJ8kzjw https://andrewarrow.substack.com/p/understanding-adam-neumanns-flow https://andrewarrow.substack.com/p/understanding-adam-neuman...
- achow 4y agoLooks quite similar to Ikea's desk partition - Eilif Screen. Ikea's one also uses fleece kind of material for sound absorption. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-freestanding-gray-40466935/ https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-freestanding-gray-... https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-for-desk-gray-00466937/ https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-for-desk-gray-0046...
- aliqot 4y agoAt the beginning of work from home, I was confident that a lot of these big companies would maybe close a few locations but have coworking spaces available for those who prefer the office. You could have an amount of spaces spoken for, for people who need an anchored space, and you could have communal areas and open rooms with shutting doors for people who want to pop in and get a space.
- hartator 4y agoHey, I am trying to reach you privately. Can you send me an email? julien _at_ serpapi.com. Thank you!
- j7ake 4y agoI don’t understand how they are paying people 200k+ and unable to provide them with proper offices with a door and whiteboard.
- achow 4y agoOpen office is all about big cost saving. The moment there are closed walls and doors, lot of other cost kicks in - individual HVAC vents, plumbing for individual fire sprinklers, wire routing for electric, network etc. Open office also makes it easy to replan office layout without much additional expense - when extra people needs to be accommodated (summer influx of interns, campus hires etc).
- pengaru 4y agoYou left out higher occupant density. Everywhere I've worked with an open floorplan office packed everyone like sardines. Resembles a classroom more than a workplace...
- j7ake 4y agoI would take a significant pay cut to have my own office rather than hot desking in an open office.
- znpy 4y agowhat about cubicles ?
- hiyer 4y agohttps://archive.is/6xbCY https://archive.is/6xbCY
- seanhunter 4y agoI thought their idea was to have everyone work from home (as others have pointed out) using Quest Pro to collaborate seamlessly without legs? And laying off a bunch of people also probably reduces noise in the office apart from ambient gentle sobbing.