IliasMar 14
JA Westenberg
every open plan office was designed by someone with a corner office
Mar 14 at 4:19amTypefully
Show threadrecursive 🏳️‍🌈Mar 14
@Daojoan I think a few of them were mandated by people who spend all day in meetings and don’t care where their desk is
Show threadEric BonoMar 14

@Daojoan

They like to have us draw a line around the perimeter of the room and offset it. Bingo, instant office plan. Then they have us all sit at a sharp edged counter with our backs to the room. Yes, I'm describing principal designer/fabricators with corner offices.

Show threadGary "grim" KramlichMar 14

@Daojoan We're moving offices soon and they have literally put engineering in a room in the middle of the building with no windows and no doors.

Meanwhile the people that are never in the office have offices with floor to ceiling windows...

The subtlety is deafening ...

Show threaddatum (n=1)Mar 14

@grimmy @Daojoan "You're the engineers, if there needs to be doors for use cases like getting in or out of your office, YOU design it. We'll make it happen! As long as it's reasonable - say, $100, with anything over that coming out of the coffee fund."

#shitpost

Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Mar 14
@Daojoan Yes!!! This!!!
Show threadDennis MansellMar 14
@Daojoan Unfortunately there is only labour and capital. Corner offices are for labourers who are made to believe that they are capitalists.
Show threadJWMar 14
@Daojoan
From my experience, open plan offices were pushed by extroverts or those who wanted to reduce office space.
Show threadEllegaarddkMar 14
@Daojoan not this one
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Show threadAdam Trickett  Mar 14

@Daojoan or someone who doesn't have to think for a living...

I used to work in an open plan office and hated it. Too much noise, too many distractions. Horrible and unproductive. I would have much preferred a cube... Though they never seemed to be popular in the UK.

Now I work from home and I'm far more productive.

Show thread🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦Mar 14
@drajt @Daojoan and then the boss complains about all the workers who do not come to office anymore...
Show threadGuy on the runMar 14

@Daojoan

With a view of both the parking lot and entrance.

Show threadWill Mar 14
@Daojoan And it was chosen by someone who doesn't have sensory sensitivities, especially for sound.
Show threadDavid RenaudMar 14
It's especially nice when the office dwellers fit 20 cubicals into a space adequate for half that.
Show threadMactonexMar 14
@Daojoan I once worked on a mezzanine in a building that was a converted library. There was marble and teak everywhere. Without the thousands of sound absorbing books the noise was atrocious. Decision taken by someone in an oak panelled office in a grade 1 listed building.