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Seems like a fluff piece for people who have no access to SF/SV and it shows it like a giant FB frat party.

Agree. All this stuff turns into fodder for anti-tech sentiment.

-I'm not saying there shouldn't be any, but a lot of it is baseless.

Have they ever tried coding for 18 hours straight? When your brain turns into porridge and feels like leaking through your ears...

As it does working in most of these inexplicably popular open plan office environments for any length of time.

So in a way, it's excellent preparation.

Who is doing the study on the impact of the 3800 open office corral of FB by Gehry where they only have ~(5) exec core non-open-space offices??

Surely FB is doing this - but will this data ever be avail to anyone?

Doubtful - and this is what sucks about the FB ethos "open and connect" people - bullshit - they have 3,800 engineers OPENLY connected in a SINGLE room - none of that human "connection" data will ever see the light of day - their morals are fucked.

More specifically, one wonders whether a "study" commissioned by a company about its own working environment can ever hope to be objective.

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