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Like life, balance is everything. If you want total privacy, better work from home but if you need physical presence/collaboration, regular cubicles in rooms/ar
by trggrer 14y ago
Like life, balance is everything. If you want total privacy, better work from home but if you need physical presence/collaboration, regular cubicles in rooms/areas of 8-10 cubicles + a boardroom looks like a win-win to me.
I guess it depends on the kind of programming you're doing and the teams composition.
- MattRogish 14y agoIt has nothing to do with "privacy" and everything to do with un-necessary distraction. Yes, face-to-face, voice-based collaboration can be a good thing, but very rarely do you need it 100% of the time. Need someone to look at your code? Ask them to come over and look at it. Need to chat with someone to discuss the design of some code? You can still do that. Why folks somehow tolerate "everyone gets bothered by any side conversation" is beyond me, especially when you can have perfectly fine collaboration without open-plan offices. It's incomprehensible why companies with "communication problems" think that will be solved by throwing everyone into one room. I bet good money the problem isn't that Jane isn't overhearing Joe and Bob's conversation. It's some deeper disfunction that is being exposed as "communication problems".