"Parody: where the establishment looks for ideas."
Posted on 03/09/2015 7:21:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Feel like you have less personal space at work? You're not alone.
The amount of office space per worker is dwindling as companies look to save some money, real estate experts say. By 2017, North American offices will average 151 square feet per worker, according to real estate data provider CoreNet Global. That's down from 176 square feet in 2012 and 225 square feet in 2010.
Blame a prolonged economic recession as the main reason companies are reducing office space. A stumbling, unstable recovery didn't help either, leaving bosses anxious to save money in literally every corner.
But there's also a move to so-called smarter workplaces that encourage employees to interact and collaborate. For many companies, that means taking away individual offices and asking employees to work in closer proximity.
Individual desks are also going away. Instead, companies are adopting open floor plans where employees use unassigned desks instead of their own permanent space, according to CoreNet Global....
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...and yet there are MILLIONS of square feet being built right now in Silicon Valley. I’ve never seen so much construction in my 27 years here. I counted eight huge cranes on 237 east of 101 today.
Uh.
Yes.
Little cubes with half-walls. Overseas calls are a nightmare. Little windows mean you have no privacy at all.
I’m surprised they don’t have people climb ladders to chairs affixed to walls.
Dallas/Ft Worth, too.
Well, they need some space for the Indians to work. :)
Big deal.
When I worked at Comcast I had the smallest work area I ever had.
It was so small, I contrived a device that would hold my laptop aright, which left the monitor at eye height.
Hooked up a keyboard and mouse on a shelf, mounted under my desk and suddenly I could write notes while calling.
I thought it was stupid and then I saw what the guys at Sprint were working with and it was just a bit smaller.
That’s life guys...
We all just need to suck it up. There are rich dudes out there who need to get richer, and if I have to work penned up like some animal to make that happen, so be it. I love the positive spin this article puts on workers losing space and privacy, as if we like it.
I’d love to have 151 square feet for office space. That’s not even close to the sardine space we have. I have a 2x5 desk area with a chair, right next to others with the same space and 42 inch walls.
We can hear phone calls across the building and can’t hear anybody on the phone if somebody is talking to one of our co-workers. I’ve vever seen anything like that anywhere. From what I’m told it was all somebody’s stupid idea who left a few years ago.
I can do with the small surface area, but we need walls at least 5 feet high.
Brought to you by the same people who tried to sell us on "funemployed"...
"Parody: where the establishment looks for ideas."
They are giving all the excess room to the chickens. Have you priced a dozen eggs lately?
My office is the front of my truck and my workspace is wherever I end up. Including a foot and a half high crawlspace. LOL
-PJ
LOL. Well, yeah. And Chinese, Vietnamese, Russians, Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Germans, Italians, Mexicans...you name it. I can now order beer and find the bathroom in 15 different languages.
Just bought some today for $1.63. What do they cost tyhere?
Every set up I've seen like this is eventually removed because it turns into a conversation pit. Everybody is talking and nobody is working.
They had that many for just the new State Farm buildings near Dallas. They had 3 or 4 for the Baptist church a few years ago.
Yeah...I think my cube measures 7 ft x 7 ft at best. I suppose if you count my fair share of the restroom, meeting rooms, aisles and my spot in front of the espresso machine, I may hit 151 sq ft.
10 x 15 feet?? In my fever dreams. Our SVP WW Sales is barely over that - maybe 12 x 20. Other VPs are in the 100 - 120 sq ft range.
Author is living in dreamland.
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