Employers are rethinking open-plan office design

Re:Employers are rethinking open-plan office design by rainyMammoth on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:16AM (#23280407)

you hit the nail on the head. The main issue here is also that MOST employers/managers don't really know how to measure your productivity, especially in modern software engineering.

That's why "Busyness" and "Butts in Seat Per Hour" are seen as proxy for productivity. That's also why politics play such a big role.

Until we find a GOOD way to measure productivity, Control and "Busyness" (the illusion of productivity) is unfortunately not going to go away.

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Re:Employers are rethinking open-plan office design by Shorn on Sunday May 24, 2020 @06:29PM (#23295458)

"Busyness"

I thought to myself: "what if that was the etymology of the word, how ironic".

https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+business

Oh wow.

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Re:Employers are rethinking open-plan office design by mirimir on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:31AM (#23310269)

I've always kinda "known" that, in a joking way. And never bothered to actually check. So thanks :)

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