People talk about redesigning offices to be “more collaborative” with more meeting rooms, open spaces and hangouts. Amazon is even pausing construction while they re-tool the layouts. But you know what I fucking want? The exact opposite of that. I want an office. Like my dad had, and his dad had. 4 walls. A door that I could close. Maybe I’d put pictures on the wall of my family or some shit, I don’t even know. A place where I could do deep work in private. Where constant inane chatter wouldn’t disrupt my every thought. Before WFH, I bought the fanciest, noise canceling headphones I could buy. But it wasn’t enough. It was never enough. Give me my own space, and I will commute an hour plus each way, and I’ll be glad. But until then, fuck no. I’m not going back.
They didn’t even give me a fucking assigned desk! My building has “agile desks” and you can’t even leave your shit on it over night
Misread this at first as “you can’t even shit on it over night”
This is sad. Escalate. You'll only earn points for fighting to work from office
Considering how much money big tech turns over it’s insane offices are not more commonplace. Open offices are almost the perfect environment to hinder work requiring high concentration levels. Constant noise, constant visual distractions, give me a door to close.
You know what, I agree. Who came up with the whole open office BS concept anyway?
Cheap sales department
Oracle still have offices at HQ with nice view, but still not enough to convince anyone to RTO..
At this point I would be happy with the return of cubicles. I just cannot function with people left and right
Agree- as long as it’s high walled, and has no fewer than 3 sides
I would kill for an old school cubicle. Had it for the first year and a half of my career and thought it was awful; used to compare it to a box or a cage. Then I moved to my first open office and was enlightened. Take me back to my cage please.
Why don’t you book the conference room for few hours every day? You will get your 4 walls and a door!
All the research shows open offices are worse for productivity. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/open-offices-over-due-to-coronavirus-employee-effects-2020-8%3Famp
They came so damn close to providing this for me, but they can't let me have any of the dozens of available offices because of arbitrary rules about what level can have what office. Instead I have to share with someone from another team with people constantly stopping in and having hour long debugging sessions.
I think the only thing worse than open office spaces would be sharing a small intimate space with another person
I used to work at a company where everyone got an office at HQ, 6000 people across like 20+ buildings. It truly was glorious but I wouldn't go back in to an open air cesspool to save my life.
Damn, I really can’t even imagine
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You are talking about wishing a office room in your house, not RTO 😋
nope. i used to have an office at Cisco and it was great. had the IP phone and the whiteboard and everything. just like my dad used to have.