One can dream.
I never understood why cubicles took on a bad rap. Who doesn’t like their own room? It’s your own room in the office.
I never understood why cubicles took on a bad rap. Who doesn’t like their own room? It’s your own room in the office.
I remember when Microsoft started recruiting heavily in SV (for Redmond positions) in the late 80s. They even had radio spots where the narrator touted that "you will have an office! With a door! That you can close! So you can THINK!"
My first programming job was in a newly remodeled info services center (in the core of an old 300,000 sqft building), where two developers shared large cubes with desks facing away from each other and plenty of built-in storage. Actually great for concentration. Later, I was in a single-large-cubicle-each environment or shared offices. I have yet to work a desk job in an open office plan, and I can only imagine how inherently distracting that it.
But yes, it’s hard to believe that young grads and wide eyed dreamers actually got excited by open offices. I think it harkens back to the idea of utopia. That people in coöperative working groups will help all the others and we’ll become a grand communal success....