After hiring a fancy design firm and working through multiple ideas and prototypes they landed on an innovative solution: cubicles.
Who would have thought it!
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@gr36 who would have thought it indeed. It’s interesting these areas where people do all sorts of things to try to make a crazy idea work rather than just make minor changes to the existing norm. Ego, it’s ego isn’t it.
@gr36 Open offices are anathema to actual productivity. The only people promoting them are executives who aren’t beholden to working in them.
@gregmoore As I well know from having worked in cubicles for 10 years: notice that the managers all have offices with walls and doors. That's all you need to know.
@gregmoore Where I worked there was a status hierarchy of cubicle heights: There were partitions you couldn't see over; then partitions like mine that you could look over when standing; then the low-ranking worker's partitions, about a yard high. The lowest of the low got the full Open Office treatment and were just exposed in the middle of the floor. I wonder if Meta has tried to replicate this?
@JMaxB @gregmoore Oh man! We had exactly am the same sort of thing at the corporate offices I worked at in the early 2000s. It got further stratified with cubicle dividers that went all the way to the ceiling (but some had clear panels at the top), and then some that had actual doors while others didn’t.
@Jmaxb @petebrown Isn’t it sad how we feel the need to stratify ourselves for no real reason other than pure ego? I once worked in a place where the leadership, who were only present a few times a month, got full offices with large windows while their assistants, who were present every day, sat in the hall at half-desks. This wasn’t some inherited fluke of architecture either, the whole place had been gutted and rebuilt to those specifications on purpose. I left as quickly as I could.
@gregmoore agree with you. I think some of it has to do with power and trust. The same reasons for working in an office full stop.
Then there’s a lot of crowbarring in other flawed logic to fit.