The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
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The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
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Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#2I suspect that google knows this, had made a calculation that the downsides are worth the real estate cost, and is spinning it in a more positive light.
Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#3Posted and discussed before multiple times.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815065
Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#4It's good that people are finally talking about this. Like 7 years ago, people were commonly pretending that they liked it (or maybe they just didn't watch their productivity).
Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#5I think open-office is great.
It makes it much easier for independent developers to compete with large corporations.
Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#6(2014)
Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#7I suspect that google knows this, had made a calculation that the downsides are worth the real estate cost, and is spinning it in a more positive light.
Why pay $300k+ a year for a developer then just to go and save a few hundred a month on real estate costs, sacrificing some percentage of productivity?
Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#8"Google got it wrong." What exactly did google say about open-offices?
Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#9It's good that people are finally talking about this. Like 7 years ago, people were commonly pretending that they liked it (or maybe they just didn't watch their productivity).
It's normal: you make such a big investment (moving to an open office), you have to pretend you didn't screw it up good.
Like when people pretended they liked standing desks because they spent $1000 in one. Imagine standing still for eight hours a day.
Re: The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)
#10Nothing says we don't value you like being lined up in rows with no walls. They might as well elevate the manager offices like guard towers to complete the look in that photo.
Do these companies get payoffs from head phone manufactures?