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Re:80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans by fireflash38 on Saturday August 12, 2023 @11:14AM (#37101008)
Rigghht... It's the millenials, not like corpos haven't been doing this for decades. As soon as there were cubicles, there were people rejecting them.

See SC Johnson HQ for one of the most famous versions of this. (https://youtu.be/yb-kYt1lpnI)

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Re:80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans by bonestamp2 on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:27PM (#37102362)
For sure, and like he says near the beginning of that video, "Most employees have moved to other buildings." I've been in some of those other buildings and guess what, they're almost entirely private offices... no open office plan.

They learned their lesson from the Frank Lloyd Wright building. It's a wonderful piece of architectural history, but it's not wonderful for productivity.

He doesn't mention one of the most interesting things about that building -- the building has no square corners, everything is round (even the elevator).

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