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re: Open-plan office: any thoughts or experience with this concept?
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:10 pm to poochie
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:10 pm to poochie
It really depends. People that do real work need some quiet. Loud-mouthed women need to be held accountable.
I take it you are not upper-management.
I take it you are not upper-management.
This post was edited on 10/13/14 at 1:14 pm
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Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:13 pm to Artie Rome
Clearly I'm not upper management, yet....
Yes boo, I'm interesting to see how this will work out. Some people will be disgruntled with a longer commute already.
Yes boo, I'm interesting to see how this will work out. Some people will be disgruntled with a longer commute already.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:16 pm to Artie Rome
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It really depends. People that do real work need some quiet. Loud-mouthed women need to be held accountable. I take it you are not upper-management.
Very little actual work is done at any level.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:21 pm to The Third Leg
Everyone thinks they are important enough for an office. Reality is, most aren't.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:32 pm to Paige
I have done this for a job before and it is so awful. People are annoying loud. Keep head phones at the ready
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:34 pm to poochie
50 mile shorter round trip for me. 
Have to be open to change!
Have to be open to change!
Posted on 10/13/14 at 3:20 pm to TheBoo
least it's not EG, amirite???
Posted on 4/9/15 at 8:37 pm to poochie
So this is finally happening next week. I'm preparing for my impending severe depression. Looking at the floor plan recently there's basically 9 "bosses" that will be staring right down the barrel at us all day every day. Gotta grind out some work without being bothered... Nope. Want to sit back in your chair for a 15 min r&r sesh... Nope. Wanna pull up watchespn to catch that sec tourney game while working on hard documents. Nope.
I like our current setup because my group is segregated from other groups and we get loud and rowdy while working but it works for us. Now they're plopping is right into the middle of other departments with no partitions. The group dynamic is going to go to shite.
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I like our current setup because my group is segregated from other groups and we get loud and rowdy while working but it works for us. Now they're plopping is right into the middle of other departments with no partitions. The group dynamic is going to go to shite.
F
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Posted on 4/9/15 at 11:55 pm to Yat27
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"Corporate accounts, Nina speaking... Just a moment."
Posted on 4/10/15 at 12:52 am to poochie
Dumbest shite ever. Dealt with a marketing firm that demanded the open space design otherwise they wouldn't sign the long term lease.
Now whenever they need to take a phone call, they take up the conference room or go outside in the hallway and use their cell phone.
Now whenever they need to take a phone call, they take up the conference room or go outside in the hallway and use their cell phone.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 1:03 am to poochie
It's a lousy setup. It you need to concentrate and get work done or have a call, you have to duck into an empty office. Good luck booking conference rooms because everyone else will use them constantly to get away from the noise.
I'm glad I work from home or on the road and don't have to deal with that crap anymore.
I'm glad I work from home or on the road and don't have to deal with that crap anymore.
This post was edited on 4/10/15 at 1:08 am
Posted on 4/10/15 at 1:17 am to GetCocky11
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seems like one of those concepts that management loves and employees hate.
Considering most of you spend a ton of time on the company's dime playing ot ballers I'm shocked companies haven't done it sooner.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 5:41 am to poochie
I worked for a year in a situation like this and it sucked...most people hated it and complained about it. You knew everything that everyone else was doing. There was no privacy to do anything. I look back on it as a wasted year...I left that company and that situation and went to a grown up company.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 5:47 am to poochie
I don't mind it at all but I have an office.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 5:47 am to poochie
It's a company policy for us. Any new facility is a cubicle layout. You have to be at a certain management level to have an office. And the new offices are really just slightly larger than a cubicle with sliding glass doors. For the most part, hasn't been awful since my job can be pretty social and I communicate with those around me a lot. But when you've got a serious task to concentrate on, you better have headphones.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 5:51 am to poochie
You work in Houston?
Posted on 4/10/15 at 6:49 am to poochie
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My company is moving to a new office building that will have majority open floor space with "work spaces" which are basically low wall cubicles. Only upper management will have offices. They'll have community rooms to hold private meetings/phone calls.
Anyone here have any experience with working in this type of environment? I'm not looking forward to moving from an office to this.
Do you by chance work for LHC Group in Lafayette? Lol. We are moving to a new building in August with this setup. People are freaking posses about it. I have an office now, but if I have to go in one of those "cubes", I don't know what I'm going to do.
The employees that have already moved to the new building say it is miserable.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 7:13 am to EyeOfTheTiger311
frick that I'd quit
Posted on 4/10/15 at 7:24 am to poochie
Open offices are the future. Every big company is doing research on them and finding that future generations want to collaborate more and this will allow them to do it. My company did it and the under 30 crowd likes it. Everyone else including me thinks it's stupid but I got lucky and didn't have to move into the new building.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 7:26 am to poochie
It's absolutely awful. Our company did this and in practice it has been a colossal failure of the supposed objectives it was designed to accomplish.
The idea was that we would have "work stations" where people can rotate around and sit where they like, potentially in a new spot every day. What actually happens is that people sit in the exact same spot every day. I've got an office, along with a couple other senior guys, but I have to claim that technically "it isn't my office, I only use it a lot out of convenience"
.... such complete horse crap, no one buys it, and I feel like a scumbag when I say it. As for the idea that an open floor plan increases collaboration, that's bunk. As others have mentioned it ends up in one of two ways depending on the personalities you have:
1. People chit-chat about nonsense, especially when you are trying to concentrate.
2. No one talks, because everyone is afraid to break the silence.
The idea was that we would have "work stations" where people can rotate around and sit where they like, potentially in a new spot every day. What actually happens is that people sit in the exact same spot every day. I've got an office, along with a couple other senior guys, but I have to claim that technically "it isn't my office, I only use it a lot out of convenience"
.... such complete horse crap, no one buys it, and I feel like a scumbag when I say it. As for the idea that an open floor plan increases collaboration, that's bunk. As others have mentioned it ends up in one of two ways depending on the personalities you have: 1. People chit-chat about nonsense, especially when you are trying to concentrate.
2. No one talks, because everyone is afraid to break the silence.
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