[nibs]

I have noticed a strong trend away from doing actual work, towards cooperation and collaboration as a means of increasing the upside of the small amount of work that is actually done, to ensure it is worthwhile and relevant work being done. People in knowledge work create tremendous, near infinite at times, value - in a very small percentage of their work time. The majority of the work is meta-work that enables those tiny periods of massive contribution, and the balance is just hanging out.

[itomato]

That is a wonderful thing for the folks who have such a light workload.

In my experience, even operations and development teams are under this canopy. Only execs and legal have doors, and the only sanctuaries are conference spaces, which have time limits imposed.

On one hand, it is nice to "see daylight" as a member of an operations team. Not sequestered in a windowless NOC, but as things go 'serverless', so does our sanctum.

Headphones only do so much, whether on or off.

[douche]

It's been 30 years since Peopleware was published. If we haven't figured out that giving people that have to solve hard problems peace and quiet and adequate room to lay out their materials yet, I don't think we ever will.