Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon

Re:Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towerin... by Animats on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:15PM (#15367648)

There are probably jobs where there's someone watching a split-screen display showing the webcam images of all their subordinates.

(IoT idea: Desktop USB activated food reward dispenser. Boss-controlled.)

(Just checked. It's available. Pavlov Treat Dispenser $69.95 [1])

[1] http://pavlovdogmonitor.com/treat-dispenser/pavlov-treat-dis...)

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Re:Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towerin... by pizza on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:47PM (#15369540)

You could mandate Pavloks be worn at work to receive compensation. Then just hook them up to a punishment API!

(groan)

Why give out expensive and forgettable treats, when you could use the much more persistent memory of a painful shock, using the sense of pain that comes built-into the employee?

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Re:Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towerin... by protomyth on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:37PM (#15367896)

There are probably jobs where there's someone watching a split-screen display showing the webcam images of all their subordinates.

A whole lot of daycares do this. A proper security system will keep the footage for a month.

At least the treat dispenser is advertised for use with the dog, but I bet if someone handed you this document cold with actual letterhead, it might take a bit of reading to realize the parody.

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Re:Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towerin... by Animats on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:01PM (#15368137)

If someone handed you the device, you'd think it was for humans. It looks more like a desktop device than a dog feeder.

Maybe it was originally designed for the education market.

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Re:Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towerin... by candiodari on Saturday September 30, 2017 @03:44AM (#15371774)

Probably works best when combined with other pavlovian employee management tools:

https://goo.gl/f9iNVN

And of course, there may be complaints. Luckily that too can be solved by management innovations !

https://goo.gl/wrKDke

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Re:Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towerin... by throwaway2016a on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:07PM (#15368693)

Every accepted pull request gets you a chocolate... hooked up to Github webhooks.

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