> but I cannot once remember having one. Maybe it depends on the person(s) involved? ;) Bell Labs is a famous example where it seems to have played a role (to

> but I cannot once remember having one. Maybe it depends on the person(s) involved? ;) Bell Labs is a famous example where it seems to have played a role (together with the people working there of course, and other variables). > But just as important was the culture of collaboration that the company fostered. The leaders of Bell Labs understood that physical proximity could spark innovation, and they designed its facilities to bring experts together in both deliberate and unexpected ways. > At Bell Labs’ headquarters complex in suburban Murray Hill, New Jersey, all of the laboratory spaces connected to a single, vast corridor, longer than two football fields. Great minds were bound to cross paths there, leading inevitably to spontaneous and meaningful interactions. As author Jon Gertner writes in The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, “a physicist on his way to lunch in the cafeteria was like a magnet rolling past iron filings.” Throughout the labs, employees were instructed to work with their doors open, the better to promote the free flow of ideas. https://som.medium.com/learning-from-bell-labs-b351ea09e74c https://som.medium.com/learning-from-bell-labs-b351ea09e74c