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Re:The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration by bradknowles on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:08AM (#18298496)
Unfortunately, "basic decency" is like "common sense", in that it is actually pretty rare.
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Re:The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration by olliej on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:46AM (#18298596)
Not my experience - people do talk in open offices because fundamentally there is a point where email, etc just doesn't work.

Open offices shift the cost of f2f communication vs. email/chat. Different people have different thresholds, but I suspect that there are few people for which open office doesn't move the talk vs. text bar.

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