I saw an anecdote on a different thread here yesterday saying that assistant professors are basically becoming managers. Their job is to write grant proposals a

I saw an anecdote on a different thread here yesterday saying that assistant professors are basically becoming managers. Their job is to write grant proposals and have meetings with other faculty and staff all day, and navigate the political systems of academia in order to secure approvals and funding, while their graduate students do all the actual research work. I don't doubt that at all, and to me it would explain why university offices are trending toward open-plan. Managers tend to like open-plan.