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Re:Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently by eru on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:59AM (#37001784)
> We went from offices to cubicles to open space and nobody stopped to think if it was a good idea.

People have been complaining about this development since forever. I'm not sure who that 'nobody' in your sentence is?

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Re:Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently by x86x87 on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:25PM (#37002180)
My point is that we are invoking this alleged benefits when it serves a narrative but just ignore it when it's convenient for the "bottom" line
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Re:Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently by eru on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:03PM (#37007876)
Who is 'we'? Different people do different things.
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Re:Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently by grumpy_coder on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:21PM (#37002120)
That nobody is obviously within the people making the decisions. The people complaining were a whole different set of nobodies.
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Re:Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently by eru on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:06PM (#37007892)
There's lots of different people making different decisions for different reasons.

Mark Zuckerberg might be a true believer in open plan offices (judging by his public comments). But your average Fortune 500 company might only be into it for the savings in office space expenditure to be had from cramming people tighter. And some companies, like SAP (at least when I did an internship with them ages ago), still have offices (shared amongst eg 4 people) instead of going open plan.

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