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That office makes me shudder. I feel like I live in a palace in my cube.
by smrtinsert 11y ago
That office makes me shudder. I feel like I live in a palace in my cube.
- kzhahou 11y agoAll the modern "People Operations" research by Google, Facebook, and others, has concluded that the garment industry a hundred years ago had it exactly right: http://ursulinemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/jfco_1-18-1_3feb456327.jpg http://ursulinemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/jfco_...
- cpncrunch 11y agoWhat research is that? All the research coming out recently has been saying that open plan offices are bad for productivity. http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/g... There's a big difference between a manual worker and a software developer.
- k-mcgrady 11y agoI think - and hope - the parent is being sarcastic.
- kzhahou 11y agoI wasn't kidding about Google and Facebook. Facebook has been "open plan" since forever, with rows of monitors on long tables, and Google has talked publicly about their research on optimal collaboration environments, which concludes that you need to pack engineers densely so they'll share ideas (and then have some common public space as well). Unfortunately I just spent 5 minutes trying to dig up the original articles, without luck.
- k-mcgrady 11y agoOh yeah, sorry I didn't mean to dismiss that part as sarcasm. I've seen those articles too.
- noer 11y agoto each his/her own. I've worked in both settings before and I felt like I was dying in a cube.
- cpncrunch 11y agoI wouldn't work in either. A cube isn't really much/any of an improvement on open plan.
- k-mcgrady 11y agoI never thought I'd envy cube workers but having worked in a open office/co-working space I do. I really do.