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http://www.fastcompany.com/3019758/dialed/offices-for-all-why-open-office-layouts-are-bad-for-employees-bosses-and-productivity>
"Oh, I have a problem: It’s with open-office layouts. And I have a
solution, too: Every workspace should contain nothing but offices.
Offices for everyone. Offices for the junior associate and the assistant
editor, and offices for the vice president and the editor-in-chief. Take
those long tables, the ones currently lined with laptops at startups,
and give them to an elementary school so children can eat lunch on them.
We’ll have to do away with all those adorable communal spaces, but they
were always a little demeaning, a little not-quite-Starbucks. We won’t
need them now that we all have our own meeting place."
Via Peter da Silva. David Brodbeck points out that Joel Spolsky has
also discussed this issue:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000068.html
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
