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Organize so I can split them up in two different posts? One about the book and one about the behavior?

OP here.

I was really disappointed by his posts in the last year, since he is a very important author and figure in my career.

Therefor I could not let this slide.

The question that still bothers me is: should I read material from people I think are showing unacceptable behavior?

OP here, thanks for all the great comments and anecdotes.

While nobody disagrees that this kind of culture would be worth striving for, the majority's opinion seems to be that it is impossible to achieve.

But we all share the desire for living/working in an environment like this and this gives me hope! Anybody who start the discussion in their team or company about the way they interact, will quickly and most certainly find allies and can grow a team of change agents from that.

Everyone culture was already mentioned and I would also recommend books like Unboss https://coderbyheart.com/unboss-a-compendium-for-future-orga... or Joy, Inc. https://coderbyheart.com/joy-inc/

Thanks for sharing this, Jim!

What they will be presenting is a design, and a powerpoint slide of promises.

Let's wait how long it takes for the first of those trucks to actually be used.

OT: your website loads horribly slow.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=d... gets a timeout.

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> Elon calls those working at Tesla the “special ops” of the industry. You’re expected to do more with less every single day

I hate it when leaders that probably never served in the military use metaphors they don't understand for pushing employees to the limit.

SpecOps are all about having the best tools for the job, preparation, training, in order to succeed on a mission.

This reminds me very much of a classical forum. I wonder what the key differences to Discourse is and why they chose to built an entirely new project.

Does someone have a working instance of this where we could test-run it?

Open plan would work, if people would be cautious about the noise they are creating.

But people don't.

You can use the viewer in FPS mode (click on the feet icon).

What would be a good description of this, then?

Rhein-Main region.

I had the same thought!

Wow. Sauna <3

Where was this?

A lot of commenters wished for single person rooms. As a remote worker, I'd say: if I want to work solo (for some time), why go to the office in the first place? I'd stay at home or go to a coffee shop.

I could imagine having a second floor, that has more privacy features: single person offices, rooms for private conversations, power napping, nursing mums, yoga.

What do you think?

The kitchen definitely must have a good ventilation system!

Yes, looks like they put very much effort into having enough quiet, secluded desks and a lot of meeting room sizes but still maintaining a very flexible, open-floor plan.

That article only states that having individual office use three times as much space as open plan offices.

It offers no insight in studies how much a single office improves productivity and how that affects overall revenue of the business. I'm convinced it's more then three times of the lease for office space.

And keep in mind that open-plan offices are turning away candidates (see comments in this thread). They are losing talent for optimizing for real estate usage. This needs to be factored in as well.

We use it in Germany quite regulary.

It's the experience level in the middle between senior and junior.

Yes, working outside would be a dream, especially in a location where you have great conditions outside throughout the year.

Open-plan is not an option.

But focussing on how to grow might help. If I stick to the max 30 people rule, I will soon learn that I can do a lot with 30 people.

And if not, why do they have to be so closely integrated? Communication gets hard anyway in such a large group. Why not grow to 40 and then split into 20+20 and make the two teams two separate businesses, with their own office and at the same time reducing the width of the communication channel between the teams.

Yes, that is exactly my point.

We have shitty offices, because they are build to suit the real estate market not productivity.

But there are examples which are horrible by design, and not because the property value was important: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30... (first pic)

Ok, so I would ask an architect: build me an office that can scale. What would they answer?

We have shitty offices because there is no solution, so allow me to at least say: if you want me to work in your office (which I think is not necessary at all) build me one, that suits my productivity and not the constraints of the real estate market.

Realistically, as a company you would start with one floor, and once it fills up, rent another in the same building.

Companies here are doing this and lending more floors then they initially need and are subletting them, so they can move in later.

We could rent an ware house and build offices out of shipping containers. That could be done.

Yes, I agree. This is absolutely working so much better. I'm working remote for many years and I always enjoy it, when people are using headsets and their individual devices.

Primarily the TVs are used for sharing screens, and team metrics. So they are mostly used for data, rather then communication.

Yes, right. I have no idea what typical offices have per person?

I wanted to have a little visual blocker, too. Just a glass door is not enough. Visitors can peek through the windows to see if a person is available.

And I would add a red / green LED to the door knob which signals if you are free to enter.

The wall inside also serves as a stand for the (heavy) flatscreen and has a coat hanger. I think it adds a nice cosy touch to the office, you you come in an e.g. take off your shoes.

Yes, I'll update the design and remove the stalls.

Yes!

I imagined having a floor where people arrange themselves based on lighting preferences, so the farther you go into the floor the lower the lights are. You can't have the lights brighter then the previous office.