On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have a friend who loves everything about his current job except the fact
> that it is an open floorplan office.  When everything I read (going back to
> "Peopleware" by DeMarco") agrees that an open floorplan is so full of
> distractions that productivity is severely impacted that I have trouble
> understanding how this makes business sense.  Is there something so
> fundamentally different about Millenials that such an environment is
> effective?  Or, is this some sort of fad that really is a bad idea?  What
> am I missing?
>
> -- Matt
>

It is a bad idea from start to finish. There are people who work well in
teams, and there are times to get folks together for brain-storming or
other discussions. However, the assumption that everyone works well with
noise, phone calls, and other distractions is silly.

Leam

-- 
Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/>
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