That picture of the Facebook offices in the article looks terrible. If anyone here works there is that the new office? Also is that how it's supposed to look or is it unfinished?
Even the environmental controls are working harder than they have to - all of that empty space over everyone's heads has to be heated/cooled, and a lot of insulation potential from a simple drop ceiling is lost. In other words, worker productivity aside, Facebook is still losing a lot of money on that building.
The last time I worked in a space like that was for Atari as a temp QA tester. It was as bad as advertised, though even Atari had cubicle walls and company-provided headphones for their testers.
The interior designers must have been paid well I'm guessing - this is successful company, perhaps the rest of us have poor taste and we will eventually grow to be dazzled by it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30...