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NovemberMike posted: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. Walls cost money and it's cheaper to build out an "open" office with greater worker density. Offices with walls and doors are for management.
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Hey isn't this thread supposed to be about bashing open floor plan offices, stupid/cheap managers who put us engineering-type workers in them, and the loud distracting assholes who we have to sit next to? My previous job had only open office space (not even cubicles) for everyone lower on the food chain than VP. VPs and up got offices with doors, personal printers, and probably company-paid oral sex every day but I'm only speculating about that because I can't see through closed doors. Anyway, my assigned desk was in the same room as a dozen sales guys who blab loudly and incessantly on their phones with a TV blaring all day, so to get any work done I had to put on a sweatshirt and headphones and go sit under an AC vent in the server room with a lovely laptop. I asked my boss, the CTO, if I could move into a tiny office they kept open for visiting executives and was told that I wasn't important enough. I quit that job and it felt like getting out of prison. gently caress open offices and the idiotic cheap bastards who think they're a good idea.
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chippy posted:Your what? What happens at work, stays at work.
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