Open Office Plans
The cluster focuses on debates about open office layouts in tech companies, with most comments criticizing them for reducing productivity, increasing distractions, and prioritizing cost savings over employee well-being and collaboration claims.
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How does an open space office improve vs working in a single office?
Why is open office plan surprising? Its practically de rigueur at tech companies.
Why are open plans (among software engineers) so common in the industry? Is it really that most software engineers like them?
Would you always avoid an open office ?
This is the problem of the commons in its classic incarnation. If the private offices are shared, pretty soon you will have people either squatting in them or accusing others of squatting.Open layouts are a way to save lots of money per employee. They provide no tangible benefit over private offices that are big enough to have coding sessions in, but they cost a hell of a lot less. Next time someone tells you that they are more productive in an open layout office ask them if they had ever wor
This is not going to play well with open-space offices.
Another argument against open plan offices.
open floor plans are one of the most potent destructors of productivity
Why are open-concept offices a waste?
Another great argument against open plan offices.