I agree. I worked in an open plan office for years in the US, and it was a regal pain trying to speak another language with a prospect while hearing other people speaking English in the background. The worst offenders were the ones who insisted on using speaker-phones! I resorted to starting work at 4 a.m. to avoid all the hassle. Of course, management were in closed door offices! ALH -----Original Message----- From: Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Sent: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 14:02 Subject: Re: It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time | Inc.com
You haven't lived until you have to talk to a vendor on the telephone while surrounded by other conversations. To be fair, they don't appreciate your reading out loud from the dump any more then you enjoy their chatter - which might also be with vendor support groups. Dumbest of all time? I'm not sure. But dumb enough - no question. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Mark Regan <marktre...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 9:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Fwd: It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time | Inc.com For those of you who find yourselves in this type of working environment. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1F4O7Jngr9Ip6KIwviFvSVIESyGORRnsgACKq0T9XEdiHfGeJmPbukhwhAS0BInhkpXD2YjG1TFrgfTGHi3F-d96aaH1AJbzjaFoFe0QanBV-Y50uvJ-sH1T2bP3nwrhhFZ8qAsZQuYmoZf8UucIHp0L59_GZQwA5e1PegPVVqX5ybkj5bfykFYzBr1GIyc7JxL8K9J8-vBW2OPaZ0nFB_WIHXaADIahBcNukyLqLrMNNRbkQEXemaT99CFBnI1x25KCiNh5fEuVQCU6xMQ9EYGBTCQAnCPQ7NKsA_3yXInXn1zQvP6BfG6ubix3adrSFH7s9RdOvaBlwsNth6c-KDSMq44E93ezA4UDj-ZJorkIoFJo_4X5dw09LWAXJ96GG9Vpcih23-AJDJP-d5LX2u9q83jr1JhbWWwZvSVTyn_klCi8NwncsKRtu0yi84PYv/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inc.com%2Fgeoffrey-james%2Fits-official-open-plan-offices-are-now-dumbest-management-fad-of-all-time.html Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1, USNR-Retired 1969-1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN