Because Slack lets you distract people no matter where on the planet they are? :-)
The social norms in any open plan office I’ve been in is to not talk in person because you’ll distract the 20 people in earshot. But good luck finding a nearby open room, so Slack is now worth $5B.https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1015373175029460997 …
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yeah, the galaxy brain version of this is that slack is just open plan offices for people who are lucky enough to have private offices.
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I don’t understand open plan offices for work that requires concentration. When I was a reporter it was an open plan because we were always on deadline; people were constantly shouting across the room. Can’t think of other work scenarios that would be like that though
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Yeah, it's total nonsense. There's a notion of camaraderie and dynamism that maybe comes from environments like newsrooms, but lets be real -- it's all about commercial real estate prices.
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But but but they build in "collaboration rooms" for impromptu meetings - which are all occupied by 7:30am by people who get there early just to camp out in them all day.
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I do wonder if there's a model to justify offices based on the sq footage of "collaboration rooms" you need to build converging with the cost to just give everyone (or every 2-3 people) an office, esp since when you're in a room your desk sq footage is wasted.
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Oh how I wish the people in my open office plan were as considerate as your colleagues. Right now I've got someone popping bubble wrap in our 350-person open office plan, despite multiple pleas to stop.
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Monstrous!
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I stood and yelled at them. They stopped.
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Me watching Office Space in 2018: “I wish I had a cubicle!”
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Yeah but it's not like
@Slack is the first instand messaging platform so what gives?? When we adopted it I immediately felt like I was back in AOL instant messenger days.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The whole point of using asynchronous communication is to not interrupt your coworker, private office or not.
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I am in a semi open office. And i have to contend with all the noise from the open break room.
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Then there’s the “loud talker” who simply refuses to abide by this social norm
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Some people are loud talkers (I’m not) and some are ebullient when something goes right (me, occasionally). I’m usually /very/ quite and can’t work around punctuated distractions but… the problem is not the people, but the space in which they are placed to “work”.
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This paper was part of a special issue that takes a broad interdisciplinary look at interactions of human to human, mammal to mammal and insect to insect and how their built environments (from their offices to their nests) influence their behavior (see http://ow.ly/qcT130kLidf ).
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Whoa, I knew open plan offices were nonsense but I hadn't made a connection with Slack but it makes perfect sense!
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