Re:Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to retur...
by _ph_ on Sunday May 08, 2022 @08:06AM
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Where I work, the coffee room is pretty isolated. My office is actually the closest one, but I can close the door. When I am talking about the advantages of offices, I am thinking of good offices. No doubt that bad offices are almost always worse than working from home. Unfortunately, many companies have no idea (at least their upper management), about what makes a "good office". Otherwise the nonsense of "open space" would have stopped long ago.
Re:Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to retur...
by dpark on Sunday May 08, 2022 @01:12PM
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> Unfortunately, many companies have no idea (at least their upper management), about what makes a "good office".
Lol. Of course they know what makes a good office. The execs all have nice offices.
Except those whose assigned desks happen to be close to the coffee room/kitchen. That's the problem with the way offices have been designed - there is always going to be some subset that has less than ideal conditions.
The worst open office setup I saw a year before the pandemic had a conference room with no door, just a big pane of glass and a gap in the glass to enter. There were desks outside this conference room (like everywhere else on the floor) which meant whoever had to sit there was subjected to meetings and speakerphone all day long.