The company at which I am contracted recently bough a new headquarters. There is an open floor plan, but numerous miscellaneous offices, all underutilized:
Focus Rooms
Phone Rooms
Bookable Offices
Huddle Rooms
Meeting Rooms
Nursing Rooms
etc.
Plus break rooms, common areas, exercise rooms, etc.
Further, depending on the day of the week, anywhere between 25-80% (Friday) of employees work remote.
It is a comfortable setup (I often take a bookable office, as I am loud, and annoy the people near me), but not very efficient.
“I am loud, and annoy the people near me, but not very efficient”
You are loud, etc., in addition to being not very efficient?
>> There is an open floor plan, but numerous miscellaneous offices, all underutilized:
Cool, they can move wetbacks in to desecrate the space permanently. ;-) Because fighting racism and imperialism.
Damn I’m glad I moved from “Moscow on the Colorado” out to the country! Ain’t NEVER goin’ back!
My oldest son started working for a company in Albany many years ago. They owned the office building he worked in. They sold the company to an international company, and they were renting floors from the original owner for their office needs. The lockdown started, and all the employees were set up to work from home. During the lockdown, the building was sold to someone else. The new owners were going to renovate. In the meantime, my son’s company told everybody who worked at the building, to go in and take whatever they wanted for their home office. My son went in and got his chair and some other things. As far as he knows, the company isn’t planning on leasing anymore offices for his group because there was never an interruption in the work. In fact, the company had their best years financially during the scamdemic. Go figure.
I am a straight commission commodity trader.
I work on a trading floor with about forty other traders.
If you have ever seen the movie Wall Street that was pretty similar to what it was like when I started there in 1985.
Except for the fancy suits.
Just this week the boss announced the the pool table room right off the trading floor was going to become the new day care room.
That curtains would be added to the French doors so people would not be able to see in when there was Breastfeeding going on.
Within an hour we were calling it the Lactation Room.
One of the women traders is returning from maternity leave next week.
Another is due in October.
All of us traders love the two ladies.
So, in 38 years we went from a place that had one female trader to now nine.
Times change.
FYI, we also don’t smoke or drink on the trading floor either anymore.
Swearing is also generally frowned on.