Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon (2017)
mcsweeneys.net
mcsweeneys.net
"The panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates being able to tell whether they are being watched."
Transcript: http://philosophizethis.org/episode-121-transcript/
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1tcYLy2ILoRoDddvR56Kxy?si=q...
(There are a few who have the option of remote work. It's a very few.)
At last, I find out that our new office is still an open floor, I should just quit already
I have come to find these events blood-curdling. It is simply unacceptable to me that a turned head cuts through my peripheral vision to warn me of what amounts to an assault on the mind.
The open office enshrines interruption and creates an environment whereby no moment of reflection is sacred. The neediest, most disruptive, and least productive employees are rewarded for behaving in the most antisocial ways thinkable.
Someone should write something that more obviously lampoons the digital surveillance of employees that is commonplace within corporations.
> There will be a Jamba Juice.
This was so ridiculously on point.
> No. Nest will be coated in one-way mirrored glass. And we are not “watching you,” we are compassionately evaluating your flow state.
This is one of the all-time classics though: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-sea...
In Japan people use salaryman uniform, available in the color blue and white!
> No.
That's me sold then!