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All the modern "People Operations" research by Google, Facebook, and others, has concluded that the garment industry a hundred years ago had it exactly right:

• cpncrunch 12y ago
  What 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 12y ago
    I think - and hope - the parent is being sarcastic.
    • kzhahou 12y ago
      I 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 12y ago
        Oh yeah, sorry I didn't mean to dismiss that part as sarcasm. I've seen those articles too.