Employers are rethinking open-plan office design

Re:Employers are rethinking open-plan office design by ken on Friday May 22, 2020 @05:01PM (#23276968)

Unfortunately, that doesn't help, since 100% of software employers with offices use open floor plan offices, or some variant of the same.

I always ask people in the industry what company has private offices for programmers. The only answers I've ever heard are "Fog Creek" and "maybe Microsoft?", but my friends at Microsoft say that's not so common any more.

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Re:Employers are rethinking open-plan office design by sokoloff on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:26PM (#23278266)

Citation badly needed. We use cubicles rather than open floor plans in most of our office locations. Every commercial real estate discussion I've had has treated open floor plan, cubes, and offices as three distinct points on a spectrum.

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Re:Employers are rethinking open-plan office design by turbulentic on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:31AM (#23281508)

It's ironic to try and fit as many software developers in a floorspace as you can, when their productivity more than linearly drops like that. You could do with a few, actually focusing people.

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Re:Employers are rethinking open-plan office design by pertymcpert on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:13PM (#23277667)

Apple still has 2 person or completely private offices.

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Re:Employers are rethinking open-plan office design by fzzzy on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:47PM (#23278416)

Not in the spaceship.

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