Want to make everyone else in your #OpenPlan office hate you? Be a group of 3-4 who have decided to all cluster around one person's computer to have a video call with someone. So that you need to speak out loud for the remote person to hear you, and you've got the computer's speakers up so you can all hear that person.

So that *all of us* can — and *must* — hear all of you.😠

Seriously. Get a room. One of those little rooms that are *just for this purpose*.

#OpenOfficesSuck #OpenOffice #office

Agile’s insistence on co-location is disabling | Thudfactor
https://www.thudfactor.com/posts/2024/10/colocation/

#deaf
#HOH
#HardOfHearing
#HearingImpaired
#HybridWorking
#CoLocation
#HearingAids
#Offices
#ConferenceRooms
#OpenPlan

The Inter-University Seminar House in Hachioji, Tokyo, by Takamasa Yoshizaka, was completed in 1965. This iconic complex merges modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics, creating a space that fosters academic exchange and collaboration.

https://archeyes.com/inter-university-seminar-house-by-takamasa-yoshizaka/

#TakamasaYoshizaka #architecture #architectuur #modernism #1960s #Tokyo #Japan #Japaneseart #Japanese #brutalist #brutalism #openplan #openspace #concreteart #concrete #betonbrut

80% of #neurodivergent people are (like me) #underemployed or #unemployed. Traditional #interview processes, #openplan offices and the need to comply with social expectations stop us gaining and retaining gainful employment. We are #DisabledByDesign, #disabled by majority *choice*.

But valuing us only for our economic output, or adding "new skillsets" and "#inspiration to a workplace" is not #inclusion. It is dehumanizing.

#autistic #adhd #dyslexia #neurodiversity

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/aug/25/wired-differently-how-neurodiversity-adds-new-skillsets-to-the-workplace

“Our company has embraced open-plan offices, because we have a culture of collaboration (distraction) and transparency (employee surveillance)!”

#OpenPlan #distraction #workspaces #ReturnToOffice

Open plan offices are counterproductive for Introvert team members, and Joanna Rawbone MSc has a proposal for Business Leaders.

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https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxAm-F3PQSAfXpSkFwQ8EnEcfqQfc4OnRl

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#OpenPlan #Introverts #WorkplaceWellbeing

#Productivity #InclusiveLeadership #ULOC

#Podcast #INTENTIONAL #Change

I know I can be a pill about cube farms and open-plan offices. I admit: there is no one-size-fits-all solution for work.

I’m sure that open-plan offices have improved creativity and collaboration in many places, such as in the imaginations of executives who implement them.



#OpenPlan #cubicles #ReturnToOffice #productivity