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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.
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.
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Open offices have been popular with upper management who DON’T have open offices.
So, you can’t even pick your nose without everyone watching you. No thank you!
My office (one of the largest Silicon valley company) is open floor workplace. HORRIBLE. very noisy, my Boss sits opposite to my terminal. His boss sits next to him.
Coughing , chewing, phone calls, meetings, all you hear whole day.
No phones on desk anymore. Phones are only inside conference rooms and conference rooms are 3 sided glass.
Snacks are fruits only. Flex time, Black tie buses are free of cost.