What do you think of an Open Office Workspace?

[Queen B]

All for corporate banks and new start-up companies are doing this.

I think it would be too distracting for my tastes

 

[rj144]

I have my own office with a door that closes and I nice big window. I also have a 60 inch TV in my office.

 

[Simian Raticus]

Luckily I have my own space where people can't spy on me sherdogging on company time.

 

[UFC=Pride]

I'd hate that too open

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Fine, as long as they don’t bitch about me taking about non-work related things with my coworkers.

This is just another way for them to squeeze productivity out of employees and going about it the wrong way. They want to make sure not a minute is spent surfing the web and screwing around.

 

[bowened]

It’s basicslly a sign of an approaching doom for introverts in the workplace.

 

[DrBdan]

I'll let you know in June. My company is doing a big renovation to create space like that. Luckily there will be lots of meeting rooms and quiet spaces when you need to buckle down and concentrate.

Personally I feel that this open style has gone too far in reaction to the big cubicle farms of the 90s. A place I used to work had half-height cubicles which was a good middle point.

 

[GoGOPlata915]

What about when someone farts?

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

Fucking bullshit.

The day they do that in my office, I start sending my resume.

How the fuck is anyone supposed to concentrate, packed in like that?

 

[ToxicShocker]

What about when someone farts?

I was just going to post this.

 

[mantis_fist]

What about when someone farts?

No escape lol

 

[Sansnom]

I hate that style and also hate the fact that they all seem to be pushing towards that.

No intimacy, too much noise and too many distractions.

The place that I left recently were about to turn the office space into an open style.

For them it's all about productivity, but by doing that they are just diminishing the quality of the work environment for the people working there.

 

[Johnson]

If you work in a place like that you’re most likely dead inside anyway. Removing your pathetic cubicle walls will simply allow you to look into the eyes of the other soulless people around you.

 

[MC Paul Barman]

They'll never work

 

[JSN]

My office is like that although not quite that open. It doesn't ADD me out as badly I thought it would but it is stupid. It's basically the same concept as those malls with the parking lot in the middle that are trying to minimize square footage by some kind of algorithm based on average number of customers but never seems accurately reflect peak usage.

Actually the part that peeves me much more than it being open office is that each workstation has plenty of room for dual monitor stations but only a vast majority have them.

 

[Happy Man]

I'd call it what penny pinching startups with limited office space call their office for their desperate for a job employees.

It's common and sad. Like the drunk who went green he says as he rides his bike to work, this is new and progressive says the cheap entrepreneurs.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

I would absolutely hate that work environment.
Having to look at the person directly across from you for 8 hours would be distracting.
Humans have too many small annoying quirks to have to endure a setup like that on a daily basis, for 8+ hours.
Loud snackers, snifflers, lip smackers, unkempt people, whistlers, foot or pencil tappers...terrible.

 

[Tycho- Taylor's Version]

It's dumb and distracting but also easier to hit on the women.

 

[Bald1]

Looks like grade 10 typing class. Fuck that noise.

 

[crlkllr]

I share an office with 4 other people at most depending on people’s work schedules. It can be awful sometimes, and that’s with separate desks and storage.

That picture looks like my own private hell.