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by 1123581321 1842 days ago
:) It's more that employees became familiar to each other through frequent small encounters, which wouldn't have happened had each group their own common facilities. The important conversations weren't expected to happen with one party frantically holding it in.
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When I'm trying to take care of basic bodily functions, I don't need some exec using it as an opportunity to manipulate me into workplace / social interaction.
Jobs was basically just reinventing the classic water cooler except with more tasteless and unpleasant bodily functions.