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We don’t even have cubicles anymore, it’s all everyone shoved onto the same table now.
by seanmcdirmid 10mo ago
We don’t even have cubicles anymore, it’s all everyone shoved onto the same table now.
- steveBK123 10mo agoIndeed it’s telling how bad things haven gotten that many would yearn for the cubicle now
- ghaff 10mo agoWell, and pre-cubicles, it was just a bunch of tables in a big room surrounded by managers in offices.
- AlotOfReading 10mo agoThe open workroom was a relatively short fad pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. If you look at office buildings before that, they're much more similar to houses and apartments. Lots of rooms connected by hallways, staircases, and atriums. You can imagine the difficulty and expense of lighting a large open space without electricity.
- pm3003 10mo agoIn Europe I see a lot of companies with open space workrooms with some cubicles, maybe 30-40% of workers at those companies seem to work in them.
- coldtea 10mo agoNo, it wasn't. Most companies had separate offices, individual or with 2-4 desks in them.
- userbinator 10mo agoThere are still many companies with cubicles, although they do seem to be getting rarer.
- heresie-dabord 10mo agoCubicle, you say? LUXURY! We had to code 12 of us to a desk inside a cardboard box in the middle of the road. At the end of every day, Pointed-Haired Boss would replace us with A.I. and fire us, only to re-hire us the next day at half the salary. (With apologies to:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen
- paulpauper 10mo agoeven worse lol it's like "I hear you hate cubicles, so we can solve the cubicle problem and save money at the same time"
- ivell 10mo agoWith clean desk policies in some organizations, you would be lucky to have a seat. Initial 5-10 minutes are spent on finding a place to sit.
- BobbyTables2 10mo agoNext, they’ll get rid of the table…
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