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Your links to the studies aren't clickable.

mattmanser 11y ago
It's kinda tiresome, on HN there's is this rabid pro-open plan brigade, even though all the studies show otherwise. It's the same as the "I can work 60 hours productivly" brigade. All the studies, for over a century (yes, century, not decades) have shown otherwise. They are studies that show that people delude themselves into thinking they are more productive than they are. And yet, no matter how many articles and papers you post, nope. HN insists. They are ingrained memes on HN that won't, despite all the evidence you ever post, go away. So why bother? You can google it yourself, and then promptly ignore all the professional studies and still believe in open plan offices. It's simply not worth the effort.
- ramblerman 11y ago
  It's a conspiracy, and you have proof of this. But are reluctant to show us as we wouldn't believe you anyway. Interesting.
  - mattmanser 11y ago
    It's not a conspiracy, what tend to happen is you post a bunch of articles and then the parent starts picking at 1 point in 1 article as if that invalidates all of them and you get drawn into this long tiresome discussion with what is nothing but a crackpot using loads of anecdotes or worse, blog posts, against large scientific studies. And quite often it's nonsense any way, they just misunderstand it. For some reason working conditions and working hours are incredibly emotive subjects, similar to women in tech, that tend to bring out the irrational side of otherwise lucid HN posters.
Ygg2 11y ago
Here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2013.871064#.VWXFfNKqpBc http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2013.871... ---------------------------- But seriously, how can NOT putting large number of people together for long times not cause diseases? That's one of major reason flu starts during the winter...
frostmatthew 11y ago
> Your links to the studies aren't clickable. Not the author of the comment you're replying to but elsewhere in this thread (in response to someone else looking for studies) I provided links to numerous articles that each cite/link multiple studies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611091
crazy_geek 11y ago
Links are not clickable because it's 2015 and I (wrongly) assume you are capable of plunking 'open office plans productivity' into your search engine of choice. But to be helpful, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Open+office+plans+productivity http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Open+office+plans+productivity

It's kinda tiresome, on HN there's is this rabid pro-open plan brigade, even though all the studies show otherwise. It's the same as the "I can work 60 hours productivly" brigade. All the studies, for over a century (yes, century, not decades) have shown otherwise. They are studies that show that people delude themselves into thinking they are more productive than they are. And yet, no matter how many articles and papers you post, nope. HN insists. They are ingrained memes on HN that won't, despite all the evidence you ever post, go away. So why bother? You can google it yourself, and then promptly ignore all the professional studies and still believe in open plan offices. It's simply not worth the effort.

ramblerman 11y ago
It's a conspiracy, and you have proof of this. But are reluctant to show us as we wouldn't believe you anyway. Interesting.
- mattmanser 11y ago
  It's not a conspiracy, what tend to happen is you post a bunch of articles and then the parent starts picking at 1 point in 1 article as if that invalidates all of them and you get drawn into this long tiresome discussion with what is nothing but a crackpot using loads of anecdotes or worse, blog posts, against large scientific studies. And quite often it's nonsense any way, they just misunderstand it. For some reason working conditions and working hours are incredibly emotive subjects, similar to women in tech, that tend to bring out the irrational side of otherwise lucid HN posters.

Ygg2 11y ago

Here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2013.871064#.VWXFfNKqpBc http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140139.2013.871... ---------------------------- But seriously, how can NOT putting large number of people together for long times not cause diseases? That's one of major reason flu starts during the winter...

frostmatthew 11y ago

> Your links to the studies aren't clickable. Not the author of the comment you're replying to but elsewhere in this thread (in response to someone else looking for studies) I provided links to numerous articles that each cite/link multiple studies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611091

crazy_geek 11y ago

Links are not clickable because it's 2015 and I (wrongly) assume you are capable of plunking 'open office plans productivity' into your search engine of choice. But to be helpful, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Open+office+plans+productivity http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Open+office+plans+productivity