Yikes. A sexy building with an anti-developer environmental setup. I'll stay in my high-walled cubeland.
Apple are design focused, and so with it comes the focus collaboration. People isolating themselves is not good for productivity and teamwork.
That's really weird. I thought Apple liked having little secret projects everywhere. Even having access control between teams for secret special projects.
If it's open plan how will that happen?
Well, there are couple of R&D buildings next to main building on campus. I can't find much details about those, but I suspect that they will be used for those secret projects.
Open plan doesn't mean the whole building is one giant open office. The building will be a lot of smaller open spaces and some can be isolated from others.
They've already shown off the one person offices, there will be lots of them.
me, too. We have yet to invent a noise-canceling headphone good enough.
In-ear headphones that are basically ear plugs work quite well. Their comfort, however, for long-term use may be another story. But you can pretty much isolate out any normal volume.
I have some QC20is. They're wonderful, but they can't keep everything out.