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This sounds very like open plan offices. Survey after survey after study all the support the idea that they are, on average, vastly less productive. Yet, manage
by mianos 4y ago
This sounds very like open plan offices. Survey after survey after study all the support the idea that they are, on average, vastly less productive. Yet, management simply goes ahead and makes everyone sit in one huge cattle pen.
Sure, there are the odd person who pipes up and says 'I like open plan', or 'I prefer to work in the office' (I kind like the commute myself). But it's just a bunch of ignorant tools who just say the opposite is, on average, what people want or best serves the company.
- api 4y agoPeople jump on bandwagons. This is no different from how developers decided a few years ago “microservices because microservices” and microserviced everything because microservices. We need to return to the office because office and other people are doing it. Very few people look at data or reason about things from first principles.
- apple4ever 4y agoIt shocks me so much that management loves open offices, despite the data and just plain logic making it worse than individual offices.
- AtlasBarfed 4y ago"We don't like / are too cheap to pay huge offices to house you properly for work, so we are going to open floor plans" "Employees: Because covid, we'll all work from home, your offices aren't needed at all. Hey this works great!" "Please come back to our offices" "Will you go back to proper office housing, like, I'm just talking cubes here" "No." "Why come back?" "Because." ----- Ok, so here are things that I liked about working in office: - free food / drinks if it was there - escape wife / kid constant distraction - a bit of social interaction (like, does that even happen at AWS/Amazon?) Things I hate about in-office: - open floor plan bullshit - commuting - dehumanizing/gross shitters