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Then there is the open plan office, combined with the clean desk policy. That way you have to endure the inane yacking going on around you and god forbid you t
by laichzeit0 11y ago
Then there is the open plan office, combined with the clean desk policy. That way you have to endure the inane yacking going on around you and god forbid you try and figure something out on a piece of paper while you're working and go grab a coffee without locking said piece of paper in a drawer or it's a written warning.
I hate the modern corporate office environment. HR should just be upfront about what open plan offices are about: saving money. It lets you cram in as many people in as small an area as possible. That's it. Nevermind if they're productive or not. We're SAVING MONEY!
- calinet6 11y agoThere are good and bad implementations of every system. That sounds like a bad one.
- degradas 11y agoThere is also a policy of stuffing laptops in locked drawers or taking them home after work, although it's perfectly fine to leave one when going out for lunch. Which wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that company laptop is unusable for approximately 30 minutes after boot (or hibernate/suspend), when it tries to scan the whole drive for viruses or whatever. I don't even want to count how many hours of productivity are wasted because of stupidities like these.
- mauricemir 11y agoWhen i worked for Reed Elsevier in london I used to boot my laptop and go across the road to get breakfast in the 10-15 mins that took the laptop would have booted :-)
- matthewmacleod 11y agoTo be completely fair, that's just an awful working environment rather than a necessary condition of modern office space.
- rwallace 11y agoThis idea that open plan offices are about saving money needs to go in the bit bucket. If it was really about money, they'd have people working from home, which offers far greater cost savings. It's not about money, it's about power, the visible display of subservience.
- redblacktree 11y agoI'd say it's both. Starting with the constraint: Employees must be in the office, so I know they're working, the cheapest option is an open plan.