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How We Know the Open Office Concept Has Failed
As you all know to your sorrow, Irreal has been railing against open offices for years. COVID-19 has done more than anything to put an end to this abomination but like a vampire or a zombie, the concept is surprising … Continue reading
The Open Office Is Dead
Open offices are dead. At least that’s what the sociopaths who foisted them off on protesting office workers—but never their bosses for some reason—say. An article in Fast Company says that the architects who have been pushing the open office … Continue reading
COVID-19 and Open Offices
There’s not many beneficial outcomes from the current COVID-19 crisis but The New York Times suggests one possibility: the end of open plan offices. The Times doesn’t say that open plan offices will go away because of the pandemic but … Continue reading
Open Office Sanity Strategies
I keep resolving to stop writing about open office spaces. Even though I’ve never suffered having to work in one, I find their use almost as infuriating as I do the government’s illegal surveillance. Sadly, the madness goes on, I … Continue reading
Open Offices Again
I thought I was finished with writing about the horror known as Open Offices for a while but I just came across an article that so fully mirrors my feelings on the subject that I had to wade into the … Continue reading
Employees Hate Open Offices
I’m not sure why I bother but here’s another report (from last year) belaboring the obvious: workers hate open office spaces. They hate them for all the obvious reasons: too much noise, lack of privacy, lack of ability to concentrate, … Continue reading
Now: Open Offices; Next: No Offices
Over at Second Nexus there’s an article that discusses the Harvard Study on open office spaces that I wrote about previously. If you missed that post, the TL;DR is that the study showed that far from improving collaboration, open offices … Continue reading
DHH on Open Offices
David Heinemeier Hansson has a nice article on open offices: The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea. He cites the usual research showing that purported gains in interaction and communication just don’t happen and that … Continue reading
Open Office Means Less Openness
My first draft of this post started with a righteous rant about the attempts of management to justify open offices with talk of increased communication and collaboration. It was gratifying to write but probably wouldn’t be as amusing to read. … Continue reading
Kontra Nails It on Open Offices
How many bean counters does it take to finally grok giant open-space office layouts are counterproductive? — Kontra (@counternotions) October 8, 2017 He also points to this New York Times article on office design, which describes a movement away from … Continue reading