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The Insanity of Open Space Offices
Bodil Stokke tweets an excellent point on open space offices This bears repeating: NOTHING is more hostile to developer productivity than the modern open plan office. http://t.co/Q9K3XMtMfZ — Bodil Stokke (@bodil) January 4, 2014 I’ve written about this before and … Continue reading
On Open Space Offices and Idiots
A few days ago, Michael Flowersky wrote a blog post that asked the question, What’s the difference between an advocate of open space office and an Idiot? It was an amusing read but I wasn’t going to comment on it … Continue reading
Innovation at the Office
COVID-19 has dramatically reset worker expectations. Prepandemic, most people just assumed being in an office was part of having a job. Now, however, those workers have seen how well working from home works—especially for them—and many of them say they’ll … Continue reading
Some Workers Are Quitting Rather Than Go Back to the Office
There’s been a great deal of speculation during the pandemic about how the work environment will change as a result of the large scale working from home that COVID-19 required. Some pundits said that work would be changed forever; others … Continue reading
Zamansky 71: Openwith
Mike Zamansky, freshly back from a bout with COVID-19, has a new video in his Using Emacs Series that considers the openwith package. The backstory is a long standing annoyance in Zamansky’s workflow: although he can open non-text files such … Continue reading
Tips for an Effective Home Office
Because the COVID-19 crisis has caused a large uptick of the number of people working from home, I’m going to try to write a bit more about effective strategies for doing that. What that means is that as I find … Continue reading
A Win for Open Access
In a win for open access in publishing two major funders will no longer cover publishing in hybrid journals. The two funders, The Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they will not provide research funding … Continue reading
I.F. Stone, Call Your Office
Glenn Greenwald has a blistering evisceration of the recent (UK) Sunday Times front page article claiming that the Russians and Chinese have cracked the Top Secret cache of Snowden documents and that MI6 is pulling out their officers to prevent … Continue reading
The Need for a Central Office
Via Jean-Philippe Paradis we have Paddy Foran explaining why “We need to have everyone together in an office.” is just hokum. At least when it comes to development shops. Dear people insisting that workers must be together in an office … Continue reading
Some Words of Wisdom from Tim Bray
Via Karl Voit I found a link to an interesting post from Tim Bray in which he discusses a variety of technical issues. I especially liked his take on Open Offices in which he says All the high-tech companies I’ve … Continue reading