Re:U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces
by loudtieblahblah on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @01:30PM
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It's about more than noise.
Cube walls, over the years kept getting shorter and shorter until finally doing away with them entirely.
The point is - the business requires that you have zero privacy or any kind of time to yourself in any capacity outside of assigned breaks.
The whole purpose is to create a panopticon of a work place, where even when you aren't being watched you modify your behavior on the possibility that you're being watched
Open offices are inherently authoritarian in a corporate/cyberpunk sort of way. That's their primary function. All this crap about collaboration and fostering open communication is just the face of it.
Cube walls, over the years kept getting shorter and shorter until finally doing away with them entirely.
The point is - the business requires that you have zero privacy or any kind of time to yourself in any capacity outside of assigned breaks.
The whole purpose is to create a panopticon of a work place, where even when you aren't being watched you modify your behavior on the possibility that you're being watched
Open offices are inherently authoritarian in a corporate/cyberpunk sort of way. That's their primary function. All this crap about collaboration and fostering open communication is just the face of it.