I don't understand how tech companies pay so much for their employees but then don't give people the space to actually work effectively.https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1082877066192678913 …
Having an office again after years of open-plan has been incredible. I also see now how open-plan creates a screwy meeting culture, instead of a 10 minute drop-in you end up booking a room for 30 and using all the time.
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I'm still surprised that with all the lengths companies go to try to poach talent, no one seems to be going to private offices as a recruiting technique.
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Good point, although that was something that stood out about Microsoft when they brought me in to discuss positions. It wasn’t explicit, but I did get a tour of the building. :)
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Apparently Microsoft is now moving away from private offices and towards open floor plans as well.
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I'm thinking that "open office" is just a symptom or consequence of densification, nobody would want to work in cubes or offices at that kind of density.
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Things get even worse when the office environment is densified in buildings that weren't designed for it. Parking, bathrooms, elevators, meeting rooms, etc...
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Meeting rooms become an especially visible aspect: beyond a certain point, there are few enough meeting rooms left that some get booked permanently (e.g. for executives), and at that point things spiral into chaos.
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Funny you say this. I just noticed that fully 20% of rooms on my floor are booked for exec "Huddles" like. What.
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I worked for Microsoft for over a decade. The only thing that kept me sane was having an office that I could go into and CLOSE the door. I've worked in open plan startups since that, and the bullpen mode is just horrible. You need time to concentrate.
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Open office plans require LOTS of available meeting rooms or people will just choose to work from home versus holding meetings at their desk in front of tens of people
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Open plan office was a major factor in leaving my previous job. When evaluating new jobs, I only considered jobs that were fully remote/work from home.
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Obsessions with making meetings last the full slot are a whole nother (weird) animal. Set an agenda people!
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I've seen that recently Slack and similar chat-oriented transparent real-time tools kind of help with that, but they still aren't perfect or face-to-face and a lot of people simply refuse to use them effectively, if at all
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Curious about this.. I've never had an office in my life.. evolution for me has been like... 10 people in an office -> 10 people in a single desk -> open-plan at a huge company
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It definitely has its drawbacks. However, it's been demonstrated time, after time, after time that the pros overweight the cons. Being such data-driven nerds, our industry is definitely turning the blind eye.
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I think this was one of the things MSR got right in the 90s when recruiting grad students: "You will have your own un-shared office". I hate not having a solo office on campus, and its only lightly shared.
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