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Sep 19, 2024
12:50:43pm

Garn All-American

I like the open office.

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Garn

Bio page: Garn
Joined: Mar 27, 2002
Last login: Nov 9, 2024
Total posts: 10,104 (36 FO)

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Messages

Author

Time

Large corporate employers moved everyone into open office seating with hoteling

TCuz Coastal Elite

Sep 19, 12:48pm

I like the open office.

Garn

Sep 19, 12:50pm

Stop.

TCuz

Sep 19, 12:51pm

sorry I had my headphones in. what? 🙂

Garn

Sep 19, 12:51pm

same. As long as there is a place I can book to take my meetings

conetah

Sep 19, 12:54pm

Why?

JuicyJam

Sep 19, 1:03pm

lots of collaboration and interaction. It isn't best for all jobs, but I like

Garn

Sep 19, 1:13pm

I don't really mind going into work.

JuicyJam

Sep 19, 1:17pm

That's why you are single and alone.

Longseason

Sep 19, 1:25pm

What, all that spontaneous communication and collaboration isn't happening?

Sep 19, 12:51pm

People who like to WFH are simply making a bad argument. Most of the people I see try to say how much better it

CSoul

Sep 19, 12:53pm

Being in the office is so much more effective for me. It's easier to get ahold

thewaterboy

Sep 19, 1:01pm

I've asked my team this (we are hybrid) and there isn't a good solution. When we have a crisis or even a launch,

CSoul

Sep 19, 1:04pm

Launch? You work with rockets?

TNT

Sep 19, 1:27pm

It really is no better in terms of getting ahold of people

AllHailTheOverlord

Sep 19, 1:59pm

Some of the people I work with don't have work email or phones

thewaterboy

Sep 19, 2:55pm

We're talking about office workers.

ochobeeguy

Sep 20, 4:34pm

All I know is that my work from home employees have been significantly less

JAGA97

Sep 19, 1:04pm

Excellent, so when you have power or internet issues, your employers get paid

Loafer

Sep 19, 1:09pm

Already factored into the value of WFH wage.

JAGA97

Sep 19, 1:21pm

Ah, so they just invoice you for the internet and electricity they are paying

Loafer

Sep 19, 1:29pm

Already factored in.

JAGA97

Sep 19, 1:38pm

By paying them less wages? What is your company? I want to make sure to never

Loafer

Sep 19, 1:56pm

That's ok. Your board name would disqualify you.

JAGA97

Sep 19, 2:11pm

So it would. I will change it to “impoverished”

Loafer

Sep 19, 4:30pm

Maybe because they know they can’t admit to being unproductive when they were

Superkid

Sep 19, 1:07pm

I'm starting to change my mind about WFH for another reason.

Belboz

Sep 19, 1:11pm

Related to that, stats show the work populace has become more unhappy generally with the rise of WFH, particularly men

CSoul

Sep 19, 1:18pm

When I started WFH full time I had to go out of my way to hang out with adults

Brute66

Sep 19, 1:52pm

Definitely a real concern

BaseCoug

Sep 20, 1:26am

Yeah, some moron thought this was a good idea. When I worked for Deloitte they

Chester Copperpot

Sep 19, 12:56pm

I like the open office. Lots of collaboration and an opportunity for others to

m0resn0w

Sep 19, 1:02pm

So glad I didn't share an office or cube section at Siebel with you. At least you didn’t rip one in the car 😆

BYU Grounds

Sep 19, 1:27pm

People hated the cubical space, and I get it... but the second that people's privacy space was taken away...

Coug

Sep 19, 1:20pm

TNT has no clue what your last sentence means

TNT

Sep 19, 1:30pm

Most Execs should just say it out loud, but won't.

RockyBalboa

Sep 19, 1:35pm

My current company is using a new tool called Jellyfish that is reporting how much each individual is productive...

Coug

Sep 19, 2:08pm

Ah yes, another useless thing to add to the tech stack

RockyBalboa

Sep 19, 2:23pm

Elon Musk when he bought Twitter fired tons of programmers after simply identify

Incentivize

Sep 19, 8:18pm

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