Many people in many industries have literally done this for years. I didn't wear slacks for 3 years once, because I was working from home for a company in Virginia. It was glorious. If you're smart enough, people don't care where you sit physically. Or they do, and they're stupid. But there's no accounting for taste. =)
I'd say even overseeing a thousand people is not worth 800k, I can do that job half as good for a quarter of the price. Hell, some executives could be replaced with coin tosses.
New Castle, DE isn't quite that bad. It's just frustratingly not close enough to Wilmington that transit is a viable way to get there. And Delaware on the whole is just a wasteland of subdivisions with no character. No way I'm moving down there from an actual city.
Is that the place where employees were smacking into the glass interior walls/doors and knocking themselves out, like birds, but Apple wouldn't replace the invisible glass with something opaque because it'd ruin their 'form'?
You can get "on-ear" style with the noise-cancel unit that are smaller, & aren't those suffocating earmuffs. Sennheiser used to make one (I swear by mine). But they're getting harder to find.
If you force people to be in a bad workplace, they will just be frustrated, and a frustrated worker is an uncreative worker.
Not every second of your day is a creative brainstorming session, sometimes you need to work uninterrupted for 4 hours.That's kinda hard in an open plan office where a different colleague comes by every half hour (on average) to ask you something or just to say hi. So plan your creative days with your team and meet up, but also plan your focus days. All this planning is alot easier if you have some say in your schedule. What if your team has to work through some serious focus tasks but you only have mandatory office days before the deadline? Do you just accept that you will work at 30-40% efficiency because of all the distractions at the office or do you simply do creative tasks and miss the deadline?
Petridishes have raised edges to control the spread. What we are doing with all our flying and other long distance travelling is repeatedly tapping all petridishes in the incubator with the same swab. The same is true for large centralised stores, malls, and shopping centres.
I happen to be in the office in the Netherlands today, but the first thing I did today was modify some things on three servers (which I think are in Sweden) for our colleagues in the USA. I had a nice lunch and walk with a colleague though, so that was a bonus.
Yes, "just imagine". What a wonderful change for the world. I hadn't thought of the angle you outline, and I FUCKING LIKE IT! A blockbuster movie depicting just such a future would be mighty helpful.
Also the tactic of not having an assigned desk so you can't personalize the space. Who thought that up? Did they watch "9 to 5" and think, these ladies had too much freedom?
Headphones are a must. I know that breaks flow state, but random BS conversations is worse.
Many people in many industries have literally done this for years. I didn't wear slacks for 3 years once, because I was working from home for a company in Virginia. It was glorious. If you're smart enough, people don't care where you sit physically. Or they do, and they're stupid. But there's no accounting for taste. =)
I'd say even overseeing a thousand people is not worth 800k, I can do that job half as good for a quarter of the price. Hell, some executives could be replaced with coin tosses.
ding ding ding ding ding
I resorted to sound-cancelling headphones on occasion, but for me they're distractingly too warm.
New Castle, DE isn't quite that bad. It's just frustratingly not close enough to Wilmington that transit is a viable way to get there. And Delaware on the whole is just a wasteland of subdivisions with no character. No way I'm moving down there from an actual city.
Is that the place where employees were smacking into the glass interior walls/doors and knocking themselves out, like birds, but Apple wouldn't replace the invisible glass with something opaque because it'd ruin their 'form'?
You can get "on-ear" style with the noise-cancel unit that are smaller, & aren't those suffocating earmuffs. Sennheiser used to make one (I swear by mine). But they're getting harder to find.
If you force people to be in a bad workplace, they will just be frustrated, and a frustrated worker is an uncreative worker.
Not every second of your day is a creative brainstorming session, sometimes you need to work uninterrupted for 4 hours.That's kinda hard in an open plan office where a different colleague comes by every half hour (on average) to ask you something or just to say hi. So plan your creative days with your team and meet up, but also plan your focus days. All this planning is alot easier if you have some say in your schedule. What if your team has to work through some serious focus tasks but you only have mandatory office days before the deadline? Do you just accept that you will work at 30-40% efficiency because of all the distractions at the office or do you simply do creative tasks and miss the deadline?
I think that was Google HQ in Seattle, though smacking into glass may be an industry-wide issue
Fun metaphor!
Petridishes have raised edges to control the spread. What we are doing with all our flying and other long distance travelling is repeatedly tapping all petridishes in the incubator with the same swab. The same is true for large centralised stores, malls, and shopping centres.
I happen to be in the office in the Netherlands today, but the first thing I did today was modify some things on three servers (which I think are in Sweden) for our colleagues in the USA. I had a nice lunch and walk with a colleague though, so that was a bonus.
Oh, more hosing would be fine with me
Yes, "just imagine". What a wonderful change for the world. I hadn't thought of the angle you outline, and I FUCKING LIKE IT! A blockbuster movie depicting just such a future would be mighty helpful.
I rue the greeting cards.... all of the greeting cards.
Also the tactic of not having an assigned desk so you can't personalize the space. Who thought that up? Did they watch "9 to 5" and think, these ladies had too much freedom?