[oblio]

Cubes are a luxury. Now all you get is a 1.5m tall panel in front of you, if you're lucky, and rows with 4-6 coworkers next to you and the same number behind you, and probably 30+ people in the same open space.

I would have killed for actual cubicles at my past... 5 jobs.

[mulmen]

Yeah. At the beginning of my career I had full height cubes. Now I don't even have an assigned desk. It's all first-come-first-serve "hotel" desks with short partitions on the desk itself in an otherwise open workspace. Strangely we also have lockers for personal items, like I am going to pack up and redeploy my pencil cup and succulents every day.

[WWLink]

> It's all first-come-first-serve "hotel" desks with short partitions on the desk itself in an otherwise open workspace.

Honestly I hate those 'partitions'. Why bother? They're so stupid and pointless. It's ironic because they actually hinder collaboration and pair programming since they're never removable lol.

If we're going to all sit together at a big table we might as well see each other lol.

[sokoloff]

They are usually removable by loosening some clamping bolts that are hidden somewhere. Where there’s a will and tools, there’s a way…

[oblio]

Many companies don't look kindly to unauthorized changes to their office infrastructure, even more so for agile desks.

And even if the relevant people are ok with you, you might piss off a power hungry middle manager that doesn't like someone standing out (had that happen to me).

[mulmen]

As a peer please don’t fuck with our shared environment. You’re just going to make it worse.

[oblio]

I like them because I don't like people seeing my screen all the time. I like the sensation of privacy.

[amalcon]

Those lockers are great for ergonomic keyboards, but I don't think I've ever heard of someone using one for anything else.

[midasuni]

Do you have a dedicated desk? When I stopped office work in 2012 that had pretty much gone. First come first serve

[oblio]

I used to have one up until the last company, in 2020.

But I did have an episode of about 1 year of flex desk before that.