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Open-Offices: Still Going Strong
The Washington Post has a nice article by Lindsey Kaufman entitled Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. As the title suggests, the article is a crie de coeur on the horrors of the open-office. Kaufman … Continue reading
Open Space Offices (Again)
Nathan, over at thoughts from the red planet, blogs about The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies. I’ve long been puzzled about this myself and have written about it before, most recently in my The Insanity of … Continue reading
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
Emacs for Everything
Alex Schroeder is an Emacs user who, like me, does as much as he can in Emacs. Also like me, he spends most of his tube time in Emacs or a browser. Unlike me, he uses EWW for a good … Continue reading
The Lies They Tell Us
I’ve been complaining about the horror of open-plan offices for some time. I firmly believe that the only people in favor of them are short sighted managers looking to reduce costs. Still, I keep seeing articles assuring me that, yes … Continue reading
Sabotaging Your Competitors
Charlie Stross was browsing through an old, recently declassified OSS manual on sabotaging the enemy’s production and started wondering about how you could apply the same principles to sabotage your competitors by injecting bad policies into their environment. He lists … Continue reading
The Cost of Collaboration
Regular readers know that Irreal has disdain for open plan offices and those who perpetrate them on their hapless employees but, somehow, never on themselves. These office plans are always justified on the grounds of “increased collaboration” but there’s a … Continue reading
Where Work Goes to Die
Swizec Teller has an amusing article in DZone on Why Offices Are Where Work Goes to Die. The article is, as I say, amusing but it also mines several nuggets of truth. Irreal, as you doubtless know to your sorrow, … Continue reading
Finally, Some Sanity
I’ve written before (1, 2, 3, 4) about the insanity that is the open plan office. One would think that it would have withered and died by now but, sadly, it seems as robust as ever. At least the successful … Continue reading