Is the open office layout dead?

Re:Is the open office layout dead? by mc32 on Sunday August 20, 2017 @10:45PM (#15061569)

Cubicles were maligned as passé ("cubicle farms") and staid so that managers and facilities could present open office spaces as au courant, forward and entrepreneurial so that in turn they could save in area per employee expenses.

If they can call cubicles "farms" (echoing sharecropping, drudgery), then we could just as easily and aptly call open office layouts "sardine cans" with all the earned baggage that comes with.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by sogen on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:44AM (#15062666)

Some ideas:

"Open cans"

"Sweat farms"

"Sweat cans"

"Headphones farms"

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by quantumhobbit on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:43AM (#15063809)

I'm fond of "sneeze distribution center"

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by sogen on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:04PM (#15067385)

Ah, "cold distribution center" too

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by gruturo on Monday August 21, 2017 @09:47AM (#15064570)

Chicken farms. Don't forget to cluck regularly.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by sogen on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:03PM (#15067380)

Better: I'll use "chicken cage" from now on! Thanks for the idea lol

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by jnwatson on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:02AM (#15065081)

The traditional "bullpen" works well.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by mc32 on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:54AM (#15065444)

Not too bad, need to trend that label in order to expose these bull pens for what they are.

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