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Gone are the days of taking a call in the open': why office pods are everywhere

6 points by cebert 2y ago

cebert 2y ago
https://archive.ph/0JkM4 https://archive.ph/0JkM4
s1gsegv 2y ago
I can respect that “one size fits all” office setups giving way to more varied conditions is a positive. However it must be said that it’s very ‘convenient’ for companies that this is a cheap way to squeeze more out of cramped and more worker-hostile office spaces. I personally hate to give this so much credit knowing what it represents, that we move further away from humane spaces to work.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  I am old enough to remember when office spaces consisted of offices, with doors and windows.
  - euroderf 2y ago
    This sounds like a snippet of dialog from Mad Max 23: The Re-Enbureaucratizing.
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      Narrator: But most of all, I remember The Desk Warrior. The man we called "Max." To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time... when the world was powered by the green rectangles... and the desert sprouted great towers of carpet and fluorescents. Gone now... swept away. Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
anothername12 2y ago
I’m using one of the phone booths at work as my office
bravetraveler 2y ago
I watched a certain company we all know redesign their offices. The guy who did it: a friend of the execs who, seemingly, hadn't worked in decades. Looked like he was airdropped from vacation in Maui. Went on at lengths about SketchUp My point, I guess, is one of the worst environments I've seen was laid out by someone who neither experienced it or cared beyond appearance. It wasn't to work in, it was to show others and make sales. The areas I saw in particular were adjacent to this purpose, The Ops Center. We're living the long term effects of 1980s movies.
ngcc_hk 2y ago
Not sure what neurologist do but if this article about using kids of special need to do office design, it reminds me the saying sociology is not about study the deviant but the family, not the delinquent but the people day in day out. It is the “normal” that is needed to be studied and helped.

6 points by cebert 2y ago

https://archive.ph/0JkM4 https://archive.ph/0JkM4

I can respect that “one size fits all” office setups giving way to more varied conditions is a positive. However it must be said that it’s very ‘convenient’ for companies that this is a cheap way to squeeze more out of cramped and more worker-hostile office spaces. I personally hate to give this so much credit knowing what it represents, that we move further away from humane spaces to work.

082349872349872 2y ago
I am old enough to remember when office spaces consisted of offices, with doors and windows.
- euroderf 2y ago
  This sounds like a snippet of dialog from Mad Max 23: The Re-Enbureaucratizing.
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Narrator: But most of all, I remember The Desk Warrior. The man we called "Max." To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time... when the world was powered by the green rectangles... and the desert sprouted great towers of carpet and fluorescents. Gone now... swept away. Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8

anothername12 2y ago

I’m using one of the phone booths at work as my office

bravetraveler 2y ago

I watched a certain company we all know redesign their offices. The guy who did it: a friend of the execs who, seemingly, hadn't worked in decades. Looked like he was airdropped from vacation in Maui. Went on at lengths about SketchUp My point, I guess, is one of the worst environments I've seen was laid out by someone who neither experienced it or cared beyond appearance. It wasn't to work in, it was to show others and make sales. The areas I saw in particular were adjacent to this purpose, The Ops Center. We're living the long term effects of 1980s movies.

ngcc_hk 2y ago

Not sure what neurologist do but if this article about using kids of special need to do office design, it reminds me the saying sociology is not about study the deviant but the family, not the delinquent but the people day in day out. It is the “normal” that is needed to be studied and helped.