FWIW, almost everyone at Pixar has their own office, with doors, walls and everything. Some people share an office with one other person. There are communal spaces, and some cubes, but nothing even remotely like the massive open office plan at most tech companies.
Yeah I do my most productive conversations when I'm rushing to do a big shit.
:) It's more that employees became familiar to each other through frequent small encounters, which wouldn't have happened had each group their own common facilities. The important conversations weren't expected to happen with one party frantically holding it in.
When I'm trying to take care of basic bodily functions, I don't need some exec using it as an opportunity to manipulate me into workplace / social interaction.
Jobs was basically just reinventing the classic water cooler except with more tasteless and unpleasant bodily functions.
Sigh... I laughed hard at your comment, but it reminds me of just the sheer amount of idiotic shit management comes up with... It's like they're living in a totally different universe from the ICs.
It’s hard to argue with the results that Steve Jobs achieved.
Well, for me more interesting to know is that did he work with JIRA laborers and had daily stand-ups where people stood like chump and offer roughly same status updates for last three years.
Honestly one of the biggest perks of WFH full-time is being 10 metres from my own private bathroom where I can take my 11am dump with the door open and in relative luxury.
Ah, I see you too are a gentleman of culture.
And here I always dreamed of having blinking neon lights, like noir films, in office bathrooms that says "This place is full of shit".