Some of the "back to the door" arguments validly involve personal preference, but should not stop there.
There are many valid reasons that might force a "back to the cube entrance" compromise. High traffic past the cubicle door. If the area outside the cube is high traffic, or highly interesting, facing it either straight on or half-on will greatly reduce the efficiency of the worker in the cube. Humans CANNOT ignore changes in the periphery, and must turn the head, which takes the persons focus off the job-at-hand. If the traffic causes this to happen a couple times every 5 minutes, your productivity falls to zero. Use of hall as part of chair rollback space. If you are very tight on space, you can use half cubes and part of the hallway (assuming low traffic) as an extended chair rollback area, ending up with less than the 48" suggested for rollback space. Not ideal, to be sure, but often necessary. This is often also used where multiple desks surround a central shared space (table, files, etc) Long range siteline needs. In some work environments, there is a need to face a certain direction. Like a trading software group that need to face a ticker wall, or a Wargames-like monitor display system. Depending on wall height and hall orientation, this might require a "forward facing, entrance to the rear" configuration. Interior design is always a balance between preference and need. Jerry On 8/21/07, Erika L. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll 4th, 5th and 6th the back to a door sentiment. It's bad bad bad bad bad > karma. > > In fact, I'm so against back to the door anything that I even refuse to sit > in a restaurant with my back to a door. I ask for a table along a wall or in > a booth. But then again I grew up in New Jersey ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:240966 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
