How I learned to stop worrying and love the cubicle
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the cubicle
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Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the cubicle
#2Cubes get a lot of hate, but I honestly prefer them over an open office. Maybe even better than a solitary office: in my experience, having my own office just felt isolating.
I've worked in a cube. I've had my own office. I've shared an office with one other person in a variety of desk arrangements. I currently share a large office with three other people (might as well be an open plan).
I'd probably rank the cube second, with sharing an office with one other person as the best (with desks arranged so both our backs are to the wall).
Open offices are terrible, terrible things. Next time I interview, I'm going to make sure to ask what their office arrangements are, so I can avoid that situation.
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the cubicle
#3It's better than open office. Adapting to noisy environment can be challenging. I have circumaural headphones for cases when I need more concentration.
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the cubicle
#4Cubes get a lot of hate, but I honestly prefer them over an open office. Maybe even better than a solitary office: in my experience, having my own office just felt isolating. I've worked in a cube. I've had my own office. I've shared an office with one other person in a variety of desk arrangements. I currently share a large office with three other people (might as well be an open plan). I'd probably rank the cube se…
I think modern office layouts try to get the benefit of "sharing an office with one other person" with huddle rooms. Of course, the problem there comes when you inevitably have to relinquish the huddle room :-)
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#5I also think the type of cube makes a difference. I currently work in a cube with high walls (at least 12 inches higher than my head when seated) and somehow the psychological effect of that is much better than a low cube where you're staring in someone else's face all the time.
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#6Open office is a trick to make you beg for the cube farm back.
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#7I work from home now but I'll take a cube over an "open" office every time.
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#8I also think the type of cube makes a difference. I currently work in a cube with high walls (at least 12 inches higher than my head when seated) and somehow the psychological effect of that is much better than a low cube where you're staring in someone else's face all the time.
Absolutely, I'd lose my entire mind if I could see over my cube walls.
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#9It's important not to over-value pithy quotes from Steve Jobs (or other successful figures). For starters, it's difficult to say if this particular assertion is even well-founded; less likely still that implementing his rhetoric will simply translate into similar success.
Work from home actually works for a lot of people. Some of those people are just as creative, collaborative, driven and successful as the folks that work in offices.
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#10His arguments about length of work day and saying "okay, work's done" don't ring true in my opinion. There are plenty of folks in my office who both stay at the office late and do work from home after hours. I think that particular behavior says more about the person than where they work.
Personally, I split time between the office and home, and find that works pretty well.