Re:What makes the perfect office?
by maxxxxx on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:20AM
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What amazes me in my company that although everybody agrees that the current setup is bad whenever they do something new they fall back to gray cubicles or open space. It seems this is just unstoppable despite everybody agreeing that it s not good.
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Cubicles are infinitely better than open space. At least in a cubicle I get my own desk, relative privacy, and freedom to decorate the space as I please.
Re:What makes the perfect office?
by iagreeentirely on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:47PM
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Cubicles also provide a natural boundary so that when someone comes to talk loudly at the person seated next to me, they don't stand directly beside me to do so.
Open office plans are the worst.
Open space is cheap, hip, and a nightmare to work in. Cubicles are cheap, extremely unhip, and are a bit better to work in.
When money is an issue (Which is always the case), you can't help but fall back to one or the other.
Re:What makes the perfect office?
by mschuster91 on Friday February 17, 2017 @04:14PM
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Yeah, especially in dense, expensive areas such as SV, Munich or Berlin (exception: you're happy to work in a nasty area of town where space is cheap but there's waste, drugs and other unpleasant stuff everywhere), money is a massive issue.
Basically you trade off a quick way to work with quality-of-working.