[closeparen]

No one is outright pressuring me to work long hours, but if I had 8 hours of real work to do, I’d have to work 16. Business hours are fully saturated with bullshit, mostly open office distractions and anxiety.

My jaw drops with envy when I see the impossibly huge allotments of personal space people get in more traditional office spaces. My dad’s cube farm felt like a palace. Fortunately I have two monitors side by side and management doesn’t seem willing to challenge that. Those with only one monitor inevitably get their seats compressed until that’s their entire workspace.

My colleagues assure me it’s no better anywhere else in tech and that if I feel strongly about it, the only thing to do is start my own company.

Meanwhile the company continues to throw money and perks at us. Anything and everything but quiet workspace. Actually there are quiet rooms on every floor! But those are for medication only, no laptops allowed. They came so close to getting it.

[lovich]

I do find that my older relatives/older friends not in tech are a mixture of appalled and amazed when I say I would kill for a cubicle. They equate that with the worst sort of soul crushing jobs, but none of them have gotten to experience the open office

[winrid]

My tech company has individual desks in the open office. I don't think this environment you describe is the norm but I don't have numbers. That just sounds like bad management.

[closeparen]

We do too, nominally, but the headcount kept growing and the real estate didn’t.

[winrid]

Ah yeah we're getting there. We just moved to this bigger office too. Frustrating.

[softawre]

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