[ProtectOurFreedom]

...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.

[combat_boots]

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.

[Vendome]

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...

[American Guesser]

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.

[scripter]

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.

[mrsmith]

"Parody: where the establishment looks for ideas."

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

They are giving all the excess room to the chickens. Have you priced a dozen eggs lately?

[headstamp 2]

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

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

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[PAR35]

10x10 isn’t a bad office - desk, bookcase, file drawers, credenza, a couple of guest chairs fit easily. 5 foot hallway outside keeps things from feeling cramped. Give the secretaries 7x7 to free up larger offices for the execs.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Look at these lucky guys handling all of our e-waste after we are done with it. They don't have any cube walls to worry about -- lots of fresh air and exercise!

[JimSEA]

There otta be a law, minimum work space per worker and better amenities for all !!!

[Mygirlsmom]

I share a cube with another person. It’s not a good arrangement.

[Sequoyah101]

I wonder how long it will take to see that interact and collaborate really mean waste time and produce little and make more mistakes?

[Varsity Flight]

08 giveaways, QE1, QE2, QE3, BodyMortgageCare for insurance (bank equity holders), global fund body mortgages.

Human Dirty Body Trafficking.

Mission Accomplished

[sickoflibs]

Another problem created by Obamacare

[Secret Agent Man]

What crap. I never had 10x15 square feet of office space. Generally somewhere between 55-85 square feet, if that.

[ReaganGeneration2]

Not explained:
Since February 2008, the size of the U.S. population has grown by 16.8 million people, but the number of full-time jobs has actually decreased by 140,000.

[Sirius Lee]

i know a guy who's a corporate architect. A lot of them are going to "open office". Essentially, they're bringing back the fancy equivalent of rows of folding tables and plopping chairs on either side. Rows and rows of workers sitting elbow to elbow facing other workers sitting elbow to elbow. They're bringing back the prior century essentially.