Hell is a stylish shared office space
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Hell is a stylish shared office space
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#2Not that I disagree with the specifics here, but I think there's a happy medium to find. Individual boxed offices for every employee is not efficient use of space most of time. While it's popular to kvetch about open plan offices now, when the pendulum swings back there's plenty to complain about the isolation and dead air of a private room (most are no bigger than closets).
Personally, I think the move towards working from home is tremendous. Perhaps it is a failure of office, but maybe that's okay. Offices are something of a hold-over from the days of the Empire State Building and insurance companies with 10,000 employees processing hand written forms. Maybe open plan offices with the expectation that most folks wont spend all their time there is a better default?
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#3I can't imagine such a work situation appealing to anybody other than extreme penny-pinchers, or maybe fresh grads, straight out of colleges. This sounds exactly like trying to get work done in a university library or study hall. If you've never known anything better, or you're the kind of person that needs that social stimuli, I can imagine you might think it was normal enough; I couldn't do it then; I'd work alone in my room or buried in the stacks. And now? Forget about it.
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#4One unintended consequence of cramming 3-4x the amount of people into a building designed in the 60s/70s for offices is the influx of traffic. On top of that, parking becomes very problematic.
On top of that bathrooms and kitchens are harder to maintain, though admittedly those can be more easily remodeled.
May not be a huge deal in the city, but definitely in a lot of office parks in the 'burbs I've been in.
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#5Not that I disagree with the specifics here, but I think there's a happy medium to find. Individual boxed offices for every employee is not efficient use of space most of time. While it's popular to kvetch about open plan offices now, when the pendulum swings back there's plenty to complain about the isolation and dead air of a private room (most are no bigger than closets). Personally, I think the move towards worki…
This blog post is complaining about office space shared with other companies in the Style of WeWork, not open plan office spaces.
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Re: Hell is a stylish shared office space
#7I can't imagine such a work situation appealing to anybody other than extreme penny-pinchers, or maybe fresh grads, straight out of colleges. This sounds exactly like trying to get work done in a university library or study hall. If you've never known anything better, or you're the kind of person that needs that social stimuli, I can imagine you might think it was normal enough; I couldn't do it then; I'd work alone…
I work for a fully-remote company and a number of our engineers choose to work from coworking spaces like WeWork. It's entirely their decision and I guess they miss the atmosphere and social interaction of an office.
Re: Hell is a stylish shared office space
#8I can't imagine such a work situation appealing to anybody other than extreme penny-pinchers, or maybe fresh grads, straight out of colleges. This sounds exactly like trying to get work done in a university library or study hall. If you've never known anything better, or you're the kind of person that needs that social stimuli, I can imagine you might think it was normal enough; I couldn't do it then; I'd work alone…
I work for a fully-remote company and a number of our engineers choose to work from coworking spaces like WeWork. It's entirely their decision and I guess they miss the atmosphere and social interaction of an office.
Or they have kids (or spouses) too immature to respect the sanctity of the home office during working hours.
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#9I can't imagine such a work situation appealing to anybody other than extreme penny-pinchers, or maybe fresh grads, straight out of colleges. This sounds exactly like trying to get work done in a university library or study hall. If you've never known anything better, or you're the kind of person that needs that social stimuli, I can imagine you might think it was normal enough; I couldn't do it then; I'd work alone…
I work for a fully-remote company and a number of our engineers choose to work from coworking spaces like WeWork. It's entirely their decision and I guess they miss the atmosphere and social interaction of an office.
And do they rent a private office or a 30-seat conference room with 29 other people already in it?
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#10Not that I disagree with the specifics here, but I think there's a happy medium to find. Individual boxed offices for every employee is not efficient use of space most of time. While it's popular to kvetch about open plan offices now, when the pendulum swings back there's plenty to complain about the isolation and dead air of a private room (most are no bigger than closets). Personally, I think the move towards worki…
This blog post is complaining about office space shared with other companies in the Style of WeWork, not open plan office spaces.
My bad ... I tldr the whole thing and didn't get to the WeWork part :( #readerfail