U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces

Re:U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces by NikkiA on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @07:46AM (#19490818)

I've got even more bad news... the guys in the tower generally aren't ATC, but ground traffic control. The ATC guys will be in a dark room somewhere, probably a basement.

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Re:U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces by jriot on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @11:03AM (#19492468)

That would be wrong.

The guys in the tower are ATC, they do ground control (still ATC) and local control, surface to 2500' with a 5-mile radius. The dark room guys (TRACON) do surface to the top of their airspace (depends, 18k, 23k) with a 60-mile radius (roughly). Then there is center/en route, which does air traffic above the TRACON when you are level flying at 30k+.

Simplified version.

Source: Was an air traffic controller.

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Re:U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces by commandlinefan on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:01AM (#19491866)

I can't believe Hollywood has been misleading me all these years...

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