Essentially great workspace is not about how big it is, but how well you
use it. I wrote an
articlehttp://www.society30.com/workspace-design-big-well-use/for Society 3.0
this week to provide more insight into what we can learn
from the study, as well as some key gaps missing in traditional
We have an open-plan office here at Pto de Contato (www.pto.ec) and
sometimes (rarely actually) the issue of noise level comes up. We then talk
to the noisy coworkers and it's done.
Of course open-plan offices are not for everybody, as aren't cubicles, home
office, vault closed offices (sic),
Such wonderful responses! I particular like the emphasis on the importance
of *how* open plan offices are implemented.
I like to think about evolutionary processes. One common model in
evolutionary theory is the fitness landscape, sort of a distribution of
peaks and valleys, with some peaks
I think the cultural change part is dead-on. Since the 80s (at least) the US workforce has been conditioned to work in high-wall cubes, keep your eyes on your work and dont ask questions. I suspect that *some* of the resistance to open workplaces is due to that conditioning. It leaves us
maybe we should expect open-plan offices to struggle in comparison for
some time, moving down in fitness before they can move back up to a new
local optima that might be much fitter overall. I wonder how much this is
a standard issue with cultural change from some long-standing tradition.
I
Thanks for sharing this. I found the HBR version
http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/11/research-cubicles-are-the-absolute-worst/of
this article particularly insightful thanks to its regression analysis into
main frustration factors and impact of these factors on overall worker
satisfaction (see spider
Carsten- +1 Like.
Joel
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Carsten Foertsch cars...@deskmag.comwrote:
When we asked members of coworking spaces in our surveys what bothered
them the most, the biggest problem was the noise, a range of 15% and 20%.
However, the noise has almost NO negative
When we asked members of coworking spaces in our surveys what bothered them
the most, the biggest problem was the noise, a range of 15% and 20%.
However, the noise has almost NO negative impact on the popularity of a
coworking space. When asking members how much they like their coworking
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