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As long as an office is considered a status symbol by management, then the open plan environment will stay. In a general sense, offices for any reason related to productivity is a non-starter today (has been so for a number of decades).

Offices are considered a reward for climbing the hierarchy not for actual work by the plebs (you know, those who would actually need it or benefit from it for work purposes).

And certainly, if the senior bods don't have offices then the junior workers will never get them.




Unless you’re at Apple where everyone seems to have a private office with a locking door.


Used to. Their new flying saucer is open office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...


Needs quiet to focus => superior

Bad signals being sent here by any management that adopts this line.




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