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Max Leibman has moved!Open-plan offices are not about taking walls down. I can scarcely think of a more stifling and authoritarian setting for knowledge work.
#OpenPlanOffices #ReturnToOffice #Management #Office
#OpenPlanOffices #ReturnToOffice #Management #Office
Now with two posts this is officially a series. Wirt learns of #OpenPlanOffices #workplacesurveillance #bureaucracy, calls a #standup, and attempts to navigate being a #knowledgeworker in a #DnD world. https://gainfulemploy.bearblog.dev/wirts-first-letter-to-elvir/
Wirt's First Letter to Elvir From The Scriptorium of Master Charles at the Court of Gartenfort being Part the First of ❦ A Day of Quills ❦
Though the Court had authority to sack Master Enoch, it fell to the other Guildmasters at Elvir's scriptorium to find his replacement. They had no prospects,...
Kevin Karhan 
@frankfeil Ich finde #Bürozwang same #OpenPlanOffices absolut shice, weils unproduktiv af ist.
Munger Hall: A Billionaire's Bizarre Social Experiment
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‘Disastrous experiment’: Real reason behind hated return to work push
“I think the push in some quarters to get everyone back into the office for the majority of the time is being driven by two factors.
The first one is concern about commercial property values.
The second is a peculiar harking back by some managers to a 1950s Theory X approach. Theory X assumes that all workers are lazy, must be watched at all times and need to be directed and controlled in order to work.”
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)"The Truth About Open Offices", Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices).
#OpenPlanOffices #Office #Collaboration #Communication #Productivity #Work #RealEstate #DeepWork
The Truth About Open Offices
It’s never been easier for workers to collaborate—or so it seems. Open offices, messaging, and virtual-meeting software in theory make people more visible and available. But as the physical and technological structures for omnichannel collaboration have spread, evidence suggests they are producing less interaction—or less meaningful interaction—not more. This happens because individuals, not companies, decide when and how to engage with others. They become adept at shutting people out and reading signs that their coworkers wish to be left alone. Many companies don’t understand how to achieve the kinds of collaboration they want. The authors provide guidance on reaching such an understanding. Companies can use new technologies, such as sensors that track people’s movements and software that collects their digital “bread crumbs,” to learn how members of particular groups are actually interacting. They can then experiment to learn how to achieve the types of exchanges they want: trying various office configurations, testing a pilot floor plan before overhauling the entire space, and exploring the impact of small tweaks. This approach will help them equip employees with the spaces and technologies that best support their needs.
Apparent #MO of most tech-companies today:
1. Spend time & effort hiring the best engineers.
2. Pay them fairly well; add a bunch of perks.
3. Put them in the *least* productive office-setting to save a few pennies.
4. ???
5. Profit?
#OpenPlanOffices make me yearn for ~shudder~ #cubicles of yore. Unhygienic #productivity-killers.
"Even The Pandemic Can't Kill The Open-Plan Office", CityLab (https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/05/open-office-design-coronavirus-risk-safe-workplace-health/611299/).
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