Open Office is the latest, it's new, it's modern!
Posted on 08/17/2017 9:38:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Construction at Apple Park, the tech giant’s new “spaceship” headquarters in Cupertino, is projected to be completed by the end of this year. The $5 billion campus is to be a state-of-the-art facility, boasting the latest in energy efficiencies, green technologies, a 100,000 square foot fitness center,an orchard, a meadow and a pond. Some 12,000 Apple employees are moving into the 175-acre campus over the next six months. But unfortunately some of them aren’t as excited as you’d think they’d be.
Why? Blame the new open office floor plan design.
If you’re an Apple employee this is a big change. Up until now you’ve been used to having your own office space. But the new Apple Park will change all that. The programmers, engineers, developers and other employees who work there will be rubbing elbows with each other over long tables that they’ll be sharing in the company’s new open space environment. And some are not thrilled.
Jon Gruber, a podcaster and blogger that follows the company is reported to have received emails from employees who threatened to leave the company if the workplaces aren’t suitable. “Judging from the private feedback I’ve gotten from some Apple employees, I’m 100 percent certain there’s going to be some degree of attrition based on the open floor plans,” he said in this Macrumors report.
Open office designs have been popular with many companies over the past few years. But they’ve also been controversial.
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“The programmers, engineers, developers and other employees who work there will be rubbing elbows with each other over long tables...”
Yuck! What an awful setup. You don’t even have your own cubicle?
Not good in a tech company, nerds are really good at getting on each other’s nerves.
Knew one that picked up the nickname ‘F7’ because he kept looking over coworkers shoulders and correcting and offering suggestions...
When they talk ‘open-floor’....they aren’t talking ten or fifteen folks in one given area, with the same general focus or purpose in life. They are talking a hundred people in one cubicle ‘valley’, with various focuses.
The use of white-boards within a group, or walls where you had plans or projections laid out? Non-existent. Everything must be digital. The geeks all believe that this enhances the work atmosphere and produces more. So far, I’ve never seen a single example where this improves work productivity.
Ah yes - the floor space wonks like it and have sold upper management that it is the cool thing to do now. You get on a conference call and the bosses wonder where all the noise is coming from as it sounds like a bunch of call centers being bridged together. Glad I retired while I still had an office.
It’s simple, they are leaving open space for the robots who will be getting your jobs soon.Robots don’t need office space you silly human.
“Open office” = may actually have to share oxygen with someone who’s not a hyper-sensitive, Trump-hating, easily-triggered, SJW snowflake.
Oh, never mind, nobody who works at Apple isn’t like that...
Most of the IT people I know, myself included, like our hidey-holes and spaces to make our own. We collaborate in ad-hoc meetings. Open spaces at a large table? Nah. I wouldn’t like it at all. And we don’t need everyone’s business spilling into our work day. We need time to get work done, in our hidey-holes.
I worked at a place that did this overhaul, nobody was happy about it. The place I work at now has an open plan. I still hate it.
I work in an open office space and dislike it. I’ve grown accustomed to it but I wish we at least had cubicles. You watch illnesses make its way up and down rows. People get sick way more often with this setup. It’s noisier. It’s less personal. I don’t want everybody to see what I’m browsing every second.
Also works spaces tend to melt into each other as papers and such get mixed together with the people who sit to your left and right.
The only benefit is to the company who can monitor you every second you are at work.
Don't know how anyone can debug code when you have a dozen people around you chatting and breathing down your neck...
Open Office is the latest, it's new, it's modern!
I thought this Open Office trend was slowly being phased out.
I’ve been hearing for the last five years about companies returning to the familiar ‘hive’ of individual office spaces.
Mainly because it’s more difficult to concentrate with constant motion in your peripheral views.
As another poster has said, maybe all this is a prelude to creating space suitable for robots. Never mind the remaining human shaped ‘obstacles’ to industry advancement.
I guarantee you the @sses who dream up these sweat shops have nice private offices and/or work from home.
What's the next step in killing morale and efficiency after the open office? Airplane seating where your desk is mounted the the chairback in front of you? You can cram 300 employees in 1000 square feet.
Not new. This has been pushed as a way of ‘facilitating collaboration and the sharing of ideas’, but like all stupid progressive ideas, it does nothing of the sort.
“Don’t know how anyone can debug code when you have a dozen people around you chatting and breathing down your neck... “
“Don’t know how anyone can WRITE code when you have a dozen people around you chatting and breathing down your neck... “
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Open offices have been popular with upper management who DON’T have open offices.
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