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Originally Posted by BrutallyDishonest2
I've argued and will continue to argue that collaboration is largely a myth. Very few industries truly work collaboratively and the ones that do don't actually need to be clustered 3 feet from each other. Clustering offices together with people on the same team will accomplish basically the same thing. Proximity is fine, pods and cramped open cubical are not. The real problem is that businesses and goverment are looking at the industries where collaboration sort of works (graphic design, video games, etc) and applying it to people who work independently.
The true change that's happening is actually shared tables ( like this nightmare) or hotdesking where you don't even get a desk but you can have a locker and choose a new space everyday! God help us all. If my workplace ever tries this I will quit.
The change in smaller office space is related to exactly one thing: money. Less space = less rent. That is the only reason it's happening. Exeuctives have simply been reading the latest change management 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 and seen the word "collaboration". |
Yep I agree with you on this. The other thing these open spaces/shared cubes create is non work 'collaboration'. In other words, people sitting next to each other with no walls to separate them will naturally start talking and socializing and quite often about subjects other than work. I've worked in stand alone cubes and shared spaces and there is way more time wasting talking about personal stuff than there is collaborating about work in shared cubes. Even if you don't participate in the chatter you have to listen to the other three chat about their kids or what happened on the weekend and its a total distraction. But management/executives, the ones in offices claim it is great for collaboration. Total BS.
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