On: Employers are rethinking open-plan office design

[regularfry]

It's also relatively useless as a measurement, so you'd expect the profit motive to drive people away from it.

[Supermancho → regularfry]

> It's also relatively useless as a measurement

It is not. It's specifically used because of the utility in the simplest tasks. Factories are designed around throughput and efficiency of workers.

[regularfry → Supermancho]

What would you do with it in an office, though? It's well known that you can't just throw man-hours at cognitive tasks and expect linear or even monotonic returns.

[mirimir → Supermancho]

Fair enough. I was mostly talking about professional staff, such as engineers, and some trades. Most traditionally, for example, lawyers and plumbers.