Notice you don't see them giving most other employees private space back. Just themselves and some 'senior employees'
CEOs Want Their Offices Back
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#12He has since moved to a 5-by-8-foot pod in the company’s innovation center. He retreats to it when he needs to focus or switch mental gears between meetings. [...] “It’s not about status or privilege,” he says of the pod, a prototype with still-exposed two-by-fours. “This is a space where you do certain kinds of work.” Yeah, sure. Ok.
Good thing none of his lower status employees ever need to do certain kinds of work!
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#13Why do CEO's think they're alone in the need for quiet spaces where they can focus? Sure some people can work in the noisy space where interruptions abound. The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU. I'd rather have a Cube farm, but better yet, a small tiny phone booth as an office.
It's from wsj. They consider you replaceable.
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#14That's great - what about everybody else? The problems he described apply to everyone in the office. Why leave them in that mess?
'Slave ownership by companies has traditionally taken very curious forms.'
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/nassim-nicholas-taleb...
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#15Why do CEO's think they're alone in the need for quiet spaces where they can focus? Sure some people can work in the noisy space where interruptions abound. The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU. I'd rather have a Cube farm, but better yet, a small tiny phone booth as an office.
I would take a 10% paycut to have a small office that fits 2 monitors, a filing cabinet and some pictures, rather then dealing with constant clattering of the guy behind me that decided converting a type writer into a digital keyboard was a good idea.
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#16Why do CEO's think they're alone in the need for quiet spaces where they can focus? Sure some people can work in the noisy space where interruptions abound. The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU. I'd rather have a Cube farm, but better yet, a small tiny phone booth as an office.
careful what you wish for. I also like silence. But I'd rather use noise cancelling headphones than work in the booth among thousands other booths.
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#17https://outline.com/b4muXW
How is this not just stealing their work?
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#18Why do CEO's think they're alone in the need for quiet spaces where they can focus? Sure some people can work in the noisy space where interruptions abound. The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU. I'd rather have a Cube farm, but better yet, a small tiny phone booth as an office.
I would take a 10% paycut to have a small office that fits 2 monitors, a filing cabinet and some pictures, rather then dealing with constant clattering of the guy behind me that decided converting a type writer into a digital keyboard was a good idea.
The mechanical keyboard people in open offices bother me.
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#19Why on earth would I need to "log in" in order to read an article?
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#20Why do CEO's think they're alone in the need for quiet spaces where they can focus? Sure some people can work in the noisy space where interruptions abound. The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU. I'd rather have a Cube farm, but better yet, a small tiny phone booth as an office.
> The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU.
You certainly have never tried to write interruption handling code...