Re:Amazon reverses course, expands work-from-home options
by WorldMaker on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:48PM
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Most shared offices still have separate desks and/or cubicle-like dividers between spaces.
> you don't have to share it with John who smells funny or Larry who talks to himself, and so on
A cubicle room is a shared office with more participants. It's the difference between trying to find an dorm room with a roommate or three versus a cabin full of bunks with dozens of roommates. (The fact that "apartments" with proper offices are so far below the "norm" in work environments versus home environments/living arrangements says so much. When was the last time a cabin full of bunks was something you expected to be in 90% of the year? [Also, I think in this analogy the open office is the church basement full of sleeping bags.])
> you don't have to share it with John who smells funny or Larry who talks to himself, and so on
A cubicle room is a shared office with more participants. It's the difference between trying to find an dorm room with a roommate or three versus a cabin full of bunks with dozens of roommates. (The fact that "apartments" with proper offices are so far below the "norm" in work environments versus home environments/living arrangements says so much. When was the last time a cabin full of bunks was something you expected to be in 90% of the year? [Also, I think in this analogy the open office is the church basement full of sleeping bags.])