I hate offices...

Seriously, unless one's having to deal with inbound physical deliveries and visitors/customers there's hardly any reason for an office.

• Obviously there are many professions where this is expected and otherwise impractical, and I acknowledge not everyone has FTTB or FTTH and proper broadband and/or has to deal with noise, distractions, small children, ... that make #WorkFromHome impossible for them...

And OFC contractors who have to get someplace to setup stuff can't really do that remotely, and that's fine too.

• But otherwise #Cubicle-Hell and #OpenPlanOffice-Noise is just bad espechally when we account the #Envoirment|al damages and #harm to #MentalHealth that #Commuting inflicts to so many people!

Remember when meetings were held in rooms? Now, every desk is a conference pod. Every conversation is public. Every project update echoes across the office like a Gregorian chant of corporate chaos.

If you've ever found yourself trapped in a meeting while overhearing three others… this one's for you.

#WorkplaceCulture #Meetings #HybridWork #OpenPlanOffice #ZoomFatigue #CorporateLife #OrganisationalHumour #Leadership #ManagementTrends #Satire

https://robert.winter.ink/why-is-everyone-in-my-meeting/

Oh, look,, $workplace has installed some more new 'acoustically treated' individual booths, for when the cacophony in the normal battery hen floors - er, 'open plan workspaces' - gets too much.

Only allowed to use them for an hour at a time, though...

I mean, great that they're putting in some places of refuge for those who need them, but infuriating that they're needed in the first place because the office design is so hostile to anyone who's not an extrovert.

#OpenPlanOffice #fail

I often listen to classical music when trying to focus in the open plan office.
BBC Radio 3 has a wonderful Verdi Requiem currently, which is definitely also making me question whether I should be in the office this much, so I guess it's doing its job...

#Verdi #Requiem #ClassicalMusic #OpenPlanOffice #FocusMode

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026nn3

How I wish #WhatsApp culture took over #Meta rather than the other way around - it's not fun having to grab a meeting room to do work because people are chatting loudly one row behind. #OpenPlanOffice is a terrible mistake and I'm so glad I normally #RemoteWork

#Productivity
#ShortSighted
#WorkCulture

Guy at the desk behind me speaks VERY LOUDLY when on a call... 😖

#OpenPlanOffice

There's a lot of noise around #rto #ReturnToOffice right now, at least in my own personal filter bubble. FWIW, I tend to think that #remotework is perfectly fine for most purposes; it saves me personally a lot of time.

That said, there's at least one question which seems important and has been largely neglected:
To what extent do the benefits of remote work amount to a compensation for the weaknesses of the seemingly ubiquitous #OpenPlanOffice ?

Open space environments drain employees’ morale due to noise pollution, according to research:

https://www.amosbeech.com/blog/office-acoustics-impact-your-teams-productivity

#acoustics #openPlanOffice #officespace

@isotopp von Lösungen wie #NextcloudHub, #Gitea / #Gitlab, #Zulip, #JitsiMeet, #WebCall und #eMail sowie #Ticketing mal abgesehen...

Wetter das ist auch so ein "#OpenPlanOffice" - Sadist der im Gegenzug in seinem eigenen, blick- und schalldicht isolierverglasten Einzelbüro sitzt?

Aber dann sich über "#Fachkräftemangel" wundern wenn maximalst hostile Arbeitsumfeld...