Re:The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration
by toomanybeersies on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:52PM
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At my old job I worked in an open office coworking space and had to hotdesk, so I have no idea where I was going to sit for the day.
We didn't have permanent desks because they were more expensive, and my boss explicitly said so. He also refused to pay for peripherals or for stationary. I'm ideologically opposed to spending my hard earned money on things for work, so I just used loose copier paper and a Macbook with no external monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Not my problem that my productivity was negatively affected.
Some employers really fail to see the bigger picture on these things. Refusing to spend a few dollars on notebooks for me to write in resulted in my notes being scattered all over the place and lost (I'm a big fan of pen and paper). Refusing to pay for a monitor just resulted in me being stuck using a tiny 13" screen. Apparently when I was hired the CEO asked my manager if I would be able to work with an iPad instead of him having to pay for a Macbook Pro. It's really not an attitude conducive to employee moral, I never felt valued in the company, because I was made to feel like a cost, rather than an asset.
We didn't have permanent desks because they were more expensive, and my boss explicitly said so. He also refused to pay for peripherals or for stationary. I'm ideologically opposed to spending my hard earned money on things for work, so I just used loose copier paper and a Macbook with no external monitor, keyboard, or mouse. Not my problem that my productivity was negatively affected.
Some employers really fail to see the bigger picture on these things. Refusing to spend a few dollars on notebooks for me to write in resulted in my notes being scattered all over the place and lost (I'm a big fan of pen and paper). Refusing to pay for a monitor just resulted in me being stuck using a tiny 13" screen. Apparently when I was hired the CEO asked my manager if I would be able to work with an iPad instead of him having to pay for a Macbook Pro. It's really not an attitude conducive to employee moral, I never felt valued in the company, because I was made to feel like a cost, rather than an asset.