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by mullingitover
1713 days ago
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> So you're just making up bullshit exaggerations to justify why your preference of working from home should be FORCED on everyone regardless of their preference or personal circumstances. I'm actually not completely against on-prem, or open plan, just against them as they've been done in 100% of my experience. Bullpen, team-focused open plan is fine, but that's not how open plan is done typically because it's not any cheaper than cubicle. > However not everyone's company office is a large open plan space with people from different teams mixed in together. There might be open plan offices where this is true, but I've never seen one. The general pattern of open plan has been to tell everyone that open plan is a wonderful enhancement that increases "organic interactions" or whatever, when in reality it's to shave 20% off seating costs. I get the allure, but this has been studied to death decades ago (see: Peopleware) and the finding (which tracks with my personal experience) was that the 20% savings in seating costs came with a 30% drop in productivity. |
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Most of the companies I've worked for has been set up like that. So they do exist. Not saying it's universal or even the norm. But it's certainly not something I've made up :)
I wonder if some of this is down to the American vs European cultures.