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NovemberMike
Dec 28, 2008

revmoo posted:

I really, really don't understand the whole 'open' floor plan thing. Let's take a trade that requires intense focus and concentration and then take 30 engineers and stick them in a room together. Also let's remove all the soundproofing to "facilitate communication." Wait, what do you mean our project is running behind schedule???

I'm lucky now I work from home in an office tucked away deep within my garage. I can't even hear trucks driving past in there, it's basically a cave.

Some assholes managed to convince people that it was a good idea without actually doing any research on it. It sounds good in theory since it's all "communication and people being open" but in practice it ends up being noisy and distracting. The best experience I've had was 4 people in a medium sized office that are all working on the same thing. It doesn't get noisy enough to be distracting and it actually fosters a little communication.

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