Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
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#2This article is from 2018 and gets posted pretty regularly. I happen to agree with its core thesis but I'm not sure we get anything out of having it on the front page again.
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#3This article is from 2018 and gets posted pretty regularly. I happen to agree with its core thesis but I'm not sure we get anything out of having it on the front page again.
Until companies start to drop open office plans I hope to see articles like this fairly often.
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#4Isn't increasing workspace density the real reason this is done with collaboration just used as the public rationale?
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#5Isn't increasing workspace density the real reason this is done with collaboration just used as the public rationale?
I am convinced too.
Re: Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
#6Isn't increasing workspace density the real reason this is done with collaboration just used as the public rationale?
Pretty much. Real estate is expensive.
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#7I am not sure why employees would message and email more if they can just turn their chair around to chat about something they are working on.
Does anyone have experience of this? I have worked in open plan offices since 1999 and I've never experienced productivity problems. If anything I'd expect working in a cube would lead to more time wasted cruising websites since your screen is more obscured. I dunno, I've only worked in cubes a handful of times.
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#8You don't like having 100 distractions to help you work better?
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#9Not every solution will solve every problem for every person.
Some people thrive in open environments, some don’t. Some people need accidental encounters to propel innovative change, some don’t.
To say these types of cultures are “dumb” (or even the opposite) is akin saying “peanut butter is the worst possible thing you could ever eat!” just because you’re allergic to it.
Re: Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study
#10This article is from 2018 and gets posted pretty regularly. I happen to agree with its core thesis but I'm not sure we get anything out of having it on the front page again.
Mostly I think every posting offers those stuck in open plan offices a chance to vent and to realise that the layout is objectivly awful.
Knowing that so many others feel the same way and that the terrible experience isn't due to your own (weak! distracted! worthless!) personality is certainly worth something.