When I made the move from being a Machinist to a "desk jockey" I started in an open floor environment. A converted warehouse with desks and walls that only separated the offices. It was very distracting but by being in the open it got me promoted as another office saw I was the only one with a PC (Portable C64, yes a 30 lb portable computer) This was in 1982. Shortly after that they went to the Cubicle layout but with low walls. But it was still distracting.
Today I share an office with another worker and 5 rows of filing cabinets that aren't mine. I switched to a head set to shut out the world so I can concentrate. Not sure what i am as I know I am not a milenial, probaly and old geezer. On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Ryan DeShone <rfdes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking as a Millenial (just barely, by most definitions), it seems to me > like a lot of the people coming up behind me are more interested in > socializing at work than actually getting much work done. I think open > floor plans appeal to that type of person. Of course, that said, I have > never worked in an open floor plan office. Only one with cubicles that had > very low walls. Even there, a lot of people had the tendency to spend more > time talking than working and distracted the people that were trying to > actually get things done. Definitely wouldn't consider it a good work > environment from my limited experience. > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Matt Lawrence <m...@technoronin.com> > wrote: > >> I have a friend who loves everything about his current job except the >> fact that it is an open floorplan office. When everything I read (going >> back to "Peopleware" by DeMarco") agrees that an open floorplan is so full >> of distractions that productivity is severely impacted that I have trouble >> understanding how this makes business sense. Is there something so >> fundamentally different about Millenials that such an environment is >> effective? Or, is this some sort of fad that really is a bad idea? What >> am I missing? >> >> -- Matt >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.lopsa.org >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > > > -- > Ryan DeShone > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- John J. Boris, Sr.
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