How a Radical Shift to "Self-Management" Left Zappos Reeling

Re:How a Radical Shift to "Self-Management" Left Zappos Reeling by onion2k on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:05PM (#11239951)

Crucially though, you know that chap in the Zapos office wants to work in that environment. He made it that way. He's happy. That's great. That might be the case with Basecamp, but you don't really know.

The choice isn't between the clutter of Zapos or the open space zen of Basecamp. It's between the "make your own ideal workspace" freedom of Zapos (on a relatively small budget) and the "this what we made for you" design of Basecamp (on a relatively high budget). Some people will prefer Basecamp, but not everyone.

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Re:How a Radical Shift to "Self-Management" Left Zappos Reeling by dsp1234 on Monday March 07, 2016 @12:33PM (#11240150)

you know that chap in the Zapos office wants to work in that environment.

I don't know that at all. All I know is that social pressure works, even at Zappos.

If every desk at Zappos has a bunch of crap on it, then by damned your desk better have some crap on it too. Otherwise, you could end up on a hero's journey to figure out why you're not fitting in.

Remember that 'conforming' doesn't always look like clean desks with the stapler always in the upper left hand corner.

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