"Every company I have ever worked in has used open-plan offices with 8-20 people and there has not been any problem."
How do you know the people wouldn't have been a lot more productive with offices ?
"shutting people away into offices is dumb"
Technical people need to concentrate for long periods of time without interruption, so being in an office and closing a door is perfect for this, as people know you don't want to be disturbed. Managers need offices mostly for private meetings, for which they could use a conference room, so it makes more sense for the managers to be in cubes. You aren't shutting anyone away, anyway. You don't them lock in the office, do you ?
"telecommuting does not work"
It works just fine when you know what you are doing. Of course, you will miss the meaningless meetings where managers tend to do all the talking. That said, managers do tend to be good at reigning in the tendency for tech people to work on only things that are cool or interesting to them.
"It doesn't have anything to do with playing guitar," Mr. Einziger says. "It's all rhythmic."
A big part of playing rock guitar is rhythmic. Any good guitarist will be good at this, as soon as they retrained their muscles to hit buttons instead of plucking strings and fretting notes (much more difficult to coordinate the two). Of course, then it wouldn't be much of a story.
The calls are critical of the democrat. If you are a moron, yes you might think it is from the democrat. As soon as I heard "information about x" I would know it's not x calling.
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"Every company I have ever worked in has used open-plan offices with 8-20 people and there has not been any problem." How do you know the people wouldn't have been a lot more productive with offices ? "shutting people away into offices is dumb" Technical people need to concentrate for long periods of time without interruption, so being in an office and closing a door is perfect for this, as people know you don't want to be disturbed. Managers need offices mostly for private meetings, for which they could use a conference room, so it makes more sense for the managers to be in cubes. You aren't shutting anyone away, anyway. You don't them lock in the office, do you ? "telecommuting does not work" It works just fine when you know what you are doing. Of course, you will miss the meaningless meetings where managers tend to do all the talking. That said, managers do tend to be good at reigning in the tendency for tech people to work on only things that are cool or interesting to them.
"It doesn't have anything to do with playing guitar," Mr. Einziger says. "It's all rhythmic." A big part of playing rock guitar is rhythmic. Any good guitarist will be good at this, as soon as they retrained their muscles to hit buttons instead of plucking strings and fretting notes (much more difficult to coordinate the two). Of course, then it wouldn't be much of a story.
The calls are critical of the democrat. If you are a moron, yes you might think it is from the democrat. As soon as I heard "information about x" I would know it's not x calling.
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