Re:The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration
by taneq on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:47PM
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> Hallway context = you're not bothering too much. Open plan context = now you're bothering not only that person but everyone around them as well. It wasn't the walls, it was expectations for focus in a given space.
So more watercoolers and coffee machines, then!
(Seriously, I think this would help. And location is important, too - you don't want the "dev team water cooler" at the back of the dev team office and the "project managers' water cooler" at the back of the project managers' office. You put one in between dev and project management and you put one in between project management and engineering, etc. so there's organic inter-silo mingling.)
So more watercoolers and coffee machines, then!
(Seriously, I think this would help. And location is important, too - you don't want the "dev team water cooler" at the back of the dev team office and the "project managers' water cooler" at the back of the project managers' office. You put one in between dev and project management and you put one in between project management and engineering, etc. so there's organic inter-silo mingling.)