Honestly, I kinda dig the open floor concept and small groups. those half-walls are bullshit. But I do LOVE having developers/ops/engineers/pm’s close enough to ask each other occasional questions.
IMO it’s outweighed by the 427,000 times. People just talk about a situation for a moment, instead of scheduling a meeting, writing a long email or even just starting a slack conversation.
I remember his office from the movie. It was not comfy.
He had his own cubicle. Better than any of the “open plan” offices I spent years working in.
To be fair he doesn’t even have his monitor on.
I’ve worked in open plan offices my entire 20 year career and I yearn for the cheap fabric covered mines.
Honestly, I kinda dig the open floor concept and small groups. those half-walls are bullshit. But I do LOVE having developers/ops/engineers/pm’s close enough to ask each other occasional questions.
That does indeed happen.
IMO it’s outweighed by the 427,000 times. People just talk about a situation for a moment, instead of scheduling a meeting, writing a long email or even just starting a slack conversation.
Why does it do x??!?!?
Because when you do y, it get blocked later on.
Oh neat
This was 1999; it was standard.