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> then to an open office environment which was hellish enough that it got me to quite my job and vow to never work in such an environment again.

We're moving to an open plan office design, to help people collaborate and interact in new emergent ways and improve productivity.

Also, please don't talk to people at their desks, it's very distracting. Book a meeting room if you want to have a real conversation.

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> to help people collaborate and interact in new emergent ways and improve productivity.

I wish you the best, but if history is any guide then the result will be less collaboration and a decrease in productivity.

> if history is any guide then the result will be less collaboration and a decrease in productivity

Which history? Rome and Sparta had profligate (for the time) public benefits and didn’t do much worse for the wear.

I mean the recent history of companies moving to an open office plan. It appears to me that most companies that have done this have seen the opposite of the claimed goals.

Of course, the actual goal is cost reduction, and on that count, I think the effort is a success.

You may have missed the /s

> Book a meeting room if you want to have a real conversation.

But act fast, the next available slot is in two weeks, assuming an exec doesn't claim the room for that full day that morning.

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