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re: Open-plan office: any thoughts or experience with this concept?
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:33 am to Mo Jeaux
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:33 am to Mo Jeaux
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It's a corporate trend right now. Goldman Sachs is high on the concept and it's catching on with others. I hate it.
Get used to it, because it's here to stay.
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Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:34 am to poochie
OT Baller, Upper Management, no advise to give.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:36 am to poochie
naturally a private office is much better, but you get used to the open space pretty quickly. Just keep headphones handy. Chevron did this when they moved from new orleans to covington. naturally employees complained at first but after a while were pretty content with them.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:38 am to Paige
I work in an office like this. Low wall cubicles. Sucks. Instead of someone knocking to come in, they just prop their fatasses up on the wall and interrupt me every 4 seconds. 
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:43 am to poochie
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:44 am to tLSU
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URS just did this when they moved from Carondelet to Poydras. Everyone I know there pretty much hates it.
Man, those employees were (and I'm assuming still are) such whiny bitches. I started right before the Thanksgiving after Katrina and the BR office was housing all of the NO workers set up on picnic tables in a large open space.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:44 am to poochie
If your work involves anything that requires prolonged concentration or being understood over the phone, you're fricked.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:45 am to poochie
I work in one. It is terrible. You will know everyone's business. I have printed off pictures of the outside world and hung them on my cube walls, but it doesn't help.
This post was edited on 10/13/14 at 11:46 am
Posted on 10/13/14 at 11:48 am to poochie
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Anyone here have any experience with working in this type of environment? I'm not looking forward to moving from an office to this.
I hate it. You can't make a phone call to talk to a client without everyone being able to hear you. This results in the entire office being eerily quiet because no one wants everyone else to hear everything they say.
All it takes is one busy-body reporting to HR and literally everything anyone says at work is monitored and actionable. Leads to a very tense environment where no one trusts anyone and everyone keeps quiet and to themselves.
Also, no music allowed to make the day go by faster.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:00 pm to poochie
Welcome to 2001. 
Those layouts really do annoy me.
Those layouts really do annoy me.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:05 pm to poochie
I just went through this same exact situation. It sucks. I recommend headphones and music, that's about all you can do.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:05 pm to poochie
That's how mine is. It's not too bad. Don't encourage the conversation and get some headphones.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:06 pm to notiger1997
we had this, luckily i am partially deaf and my voice is really fricking loud. But they can't really complain about my voice, so I got an office post haste as all my co-workers were annoyed by me.
ha ha.
i work from home now, and I would rather drive uber than to work in a cube.
ha ha.
i work from home now, and I would rather drive uber than to work in a cube.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:21 pm to SUB
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An open floor plan makes sense if you are working in collaboration with people that immediately surround you. It's supposed to make it easier to communicate.
yes but what it actually does is create an environment where everyone is nitpicking every second of others' time. that 5 seconds you spend checking out the news or weather each day, while harmless, is now seen by coworkers who think you are lazy and wasting time since they see you do it each day. Inevitably this concept makes everyone in the office hate each other and their jobs.
that conf call you have to dial in to each week which is unbillable and largely worthless...well now you cant put it on speaker and multitask because everyone will be annoyed.
no door to shut when you really need to grind out some work, so people just come in and out to tell you about their weekend activities or kid's birthday party.
This post was edited on 10/13/14 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:24 pm to man in the stadium
quote:That's why it's important to get the cubicle in the corner and keep the screen monitors positioned so they aren't easily viewed. One of those screen covers that prevents people from seeing the screen from anywhere other than directly in front of it helps, too.
yes but what it actually does is create an environment where everyone is nitpicking every second of others' time. that 5 seconds you spend checking out the news or weather each day, while harmless, is now seen by coworkers who think you are lazy and wasting time since they see you do it each day. Inevitably this concept makes everyone in the office hate each other and their jobs.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:31 pm to poochie
We may have something coincidentally in common sir. 
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:39 pm to poochie
It sucks soooo bad. If I didn't have my earbuds, I'd commit murder on the person that sits closest to me.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:41 pm to TheBoo
Interesting.
Posted on 10/13/14 at 12:44 pm to poochie
"Corporate accounts, Nina speaking... Just a moment."
Posted on 10/13/14 at 1:07 pm to poochie
Anywho, facts be what they may, I'm in a similar situation and will also be moving to a new office with an open floor plan.
I'm on the road a lot so when I do get to the office I look forward to open collaboration with my teammates.
I've seen our new floor plan and it isn't your normal Office Space cubical farm. So I'm interested to see what it'll foster.
I'm on the road a lot so when I do get to the office I look forward to open collaboration with my teammates.
I've seen our new floor plan and it isn't your normal Office Space cubical farm. So I'm interested to see what it'll foster.
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