Back in 2009, I wrote a post entitled Architecture and Mortality that talked about some cubicle design ideas from 2002. I have worked both in offices and cubicles, but I have been able to avoid the super-cool startup idea of setting everyone at the same table to interact and co-exist.
Actually, that's a good thing, according to a New Yorker article (shared privately by one of my online friends - I won't say who, but I will say that he remembered his own birthday). If you work in some of these trendy open environments, you could die.
[A] recent study ... found that as the number of people working in a single room went up, the number of employees who took sick leave increased apace.
Add the fact that it's hard for people, even Generation Z people, to get any work done with all the noise around them.
More here.
Must-win? What? When? How?
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In sports and in business, you occasionally hear the phrase "must-win." It
obviously signifies something of importance, but sometimes the word is
bandied a...
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