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Your employees had the choice between drab isolating cubicles bathed in depressing internal lighting and something else, which they eventually chose. I think ma
by Iftheshoefits 12y ago
Your employees had the choice between drab isolating cubicles bathed in depressing internal lighting and something else, which they eventually chose. I think maybe you should reconsider what that means. Perhaps your engineers weren't as interested as other parries in pretending cubicles--no matter how fancy--are the same thing as offices.
Anecdotally, at my current job I prefer working in a room where there are from three to five other engineers and lots of electronics around over working in the cube I'm assigned, but if I had a genuinely private office with a window, even overlooking a parking lot, I'd take it and work there 99% of the time, and be more productive if past experience is any indication.
- rilita 12y agoCubicles do not have to be drab and have depressing lighting. Everywhere I have gone I decorate my cubicle so it feels happy for me and I often bring my own full spectrum lighting. The size of the cubicle has to be quite large for it to not be suffocating though. I could easily fit 4 people seated inside my current cubicle, and it feels quite nice. I do agree that having private offices is way better, and the idea of having a building full of private offices seems great, but it is much more expensive than open floorplans with cubes. ( consider heating/cooling of many offices... having a maze of pathways to maximize the size of offices... ) Concentric rings of offices might work as a floorplan though??
- jakobegger 12y agoAre you suggesting offices without windows?
- DanBC 12y agoA circle of offices with windows to the outside. An inner corridor to connect them. Another ring of offices with windows to the middle. Like a big donut. Also, for some offices you do not want any windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doughnut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doughnut
- ctdonath 12y agoHence the new Apple campus? http://www.archdaily.com/434703/plans-approved-for-apple-s-cupertino-campus/ http://www.archdaily.com/434703/plans-approved-for-apple-s-c...