Speaking as a Millenial (just barely, by most definitions), it seems to me like a lot of the people coming up behind me are more interested in socializing at work than actually getting much work done. I think open floor plans appeal to that type of person. Of course, that said, I have never worked in an open floor plan office. Only one with cubicles that had very low walls. Even there, a lot of people had the tendency to spend more time talking than working and distracted the people that were trying to actually get things done. Definitely wouldn't consider it a good work environment from my limited experience.
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 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Ryan DeShone
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