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I wonder how dependent all this is on culture and expectations. I've spent my entire career in Japan, and have never not worked in an open office. To my knowle
by amake 12y ago
I wonder how dependent all this is on culture and expectations.
I've spent my entire career in Japan, and have never not worked in an open office. To my knowledge, non-open offices basically don't exist in Japan.
So is every Japanese company just leaving productivity lying on the floor by insisting on open offices? I wonder if there have been studies on switching to closed floor plans in Japan.
(Of course traditionally the cultural emphasis has been on consensus, not productivity, so there hasn't been a lot of impetus to experiment. Things are changing, however.)
- PythonicAlpha 12y agoIt is simply a myth, that the Japanese make everything right. This myth arose, because of the success of their industries and the quality engineering movement they coined. But they just don't do everything right. They do of course some things right. How is, that they have stagnating industry for decades now. How is, that they produced Fukushima and showed, how a country can fail in letting one totally incompetent corporation mess everything up. (Fukushima was not the first problem, this corporation produced -- but the bureaucrats did let them continue and problems where pushed under the carpet).
- rwallace 12y ago> I wonder how dependent all this is on culture and expectations. The actions people take depend on these things. The results of those actions typically do not. > So is every Japanese company just leaving productivity lying on the floor by insisting on open offices? Yes.
- sosborn 12y ago>So is every Japanese company just leaving productivity lying on the floor by insisting on open offices? I worked for about 8 years in Japan. Hell yes they leave productivity lying on the floor, and not just with the open offices.