*blocks you're path*

the only reason setups like this exist is to reduce privacy and force everyone to keeping working and working nonstop without ever taking a break to do something as innocuous as browsing the internet for a couple minutes. And then they try to lie with paper-thin excuses like "it's to increase collaboration and team-building" or whatever.

No, it's mainly to minimize real estate costs. All that rubbish about increased collaboration is how it's sold to the cattle.

How's that clear path around the desks blocking my path?

>pajeet
Disgusting fascist fuckboy
Go back to your containment board Jow Forumstard
Sounds like you want to get paid for not working...
Everyone needs to do their part sweety. You boys cant dump all the hard work on female programmers. Step up and do your part like everyone else.
No it's about collaboration and team building shitlord. Everyone should have the same style working environment even if it means stepping on your precious privacy.

jokes on the retards who fall for this

everyone is more productive in private except the turbo stacies

See this son?
This is bait.

This is true.
I have worked in real estate and it was always about the costs.
Funny enough the same company played the same trick themselves, but obviously nobody bought it.

Based Sony ANC headphones

The vast majority of office workers aren't productive at all, no matter what the office layout is.
Actual productive employees will find a quiet spot, or a different job.

>Disgusting fascist fuckboy
THEN SIT ON YOUR FUCKING CHAIR AND WORK INSTEAD OF SCREAMING AT THE FUCKING PHONE ALL DAY GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

Let me slap up those tears sweetheart

No, it's not even that. They're using the same office spaces as they previously were, with the same density of people. Oftentimes these "open offices" are actually quite open.

Perhaps there are some instances where it's about packing more sardines in a can, but if that's the case, it's only a secondary "benefit". the true #1 purpose is as I wrote above: to make everyone self-conscious about being seen by everyone else, forcing them to constantly work their hardest.Just like how you work harder when your boss is breathing down your neck.

You sure that's an office? It looks more like a university computer lab

Racism is not tolerated on this board honey
Reported......... >_

>replying to weak b8

That's just your paranoia speaking.
Nobody is watching you work.

Looks like a very typical office here in the Netherlands.

I could handle these in small groups of people, but a big ass collective office like this is too much. Maybe like 2-4 other people, sure, but not this. Yeah, yeah, call me an autist or whatever but I ain't doing it and I never will.

Everyone is watching everyone else work if the office is set up like a library with public tables instead of individual desks/cubicles. The entire point is to prevent "slacking off"

>user were you browsing the net for 5 minutes again?
>I understand that your net productivity is higher than the average worker but this is just unacceptable
>stacy says your lack of commitment to the team is distracting and divisive
>we're gonna have to let you go, sorry

Tell them to use slack or whatever the fuck we use. Noise disrupts my workflow too much

That's just your insecurity speaking.
Maybe stop slacking off and learn some actual skills?

Thing is, they don't even need to overtly enforce it in this way. They just know that most people are going to automatically self-cuck when forced into a no-privacy scenario, and so they don't even need to actually enforce anything harshly like that. It's just human nature, and they know this.

>t. middle management who can barely code in Java

Whatever helps you cope with being stuck in a hamster-wheel like an open-air office. Keep telling yourself that you're secure, that your work habits haven't changed at all since moving away from cubicles, and that you don't mind your employers pulling this skinner box bullshit on you.

Nice guess, but I run my own software company.
Just 4 guys but all in 1 room, plus a room for meetings/lunch.
No space for slackers though.

4 people isn't that bad. The megacuck rooms like OP's pic are pretty terrible looking though

I've never worked in a cubicle.
They are illegal here because they cause people to commit suicide.
And I am the boss so no problem there either.

>They are illegal here because they cause people to commit suicide.
Explain where the fuck you are and how this was discovered

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Meanwhile in reality:
>user, you're one of our best performing programmers but you don't seem to want to work with the rest of your team
>Still, you do good work, so you can have one of the single desks or even one of the offices if you need it
Happened to me. I just started wearing big, bright red, cheap as fuck headphones and my former team 'leader' got me an office to work in.
If your work is valued, an employer worth working for is gonna take care of your needs.

You speak out of both sides of your mouth. On one hand you say that nobody is watching anyone else and that having an open-air office doesn't matter. Then on the other you talk about managing an open-air office and not having room for "slackers" (read: anyone who doesn't spend literally 8 straight hours cracking away at the keyboard without so much as a minute to gather his thoughts)

You're duplicitous, you have every reason to lie about the true nature of open-air offices, and you're not even good at lying about it when your own posts contradict each other.

This. Use Slack, e-mail, whatever. As long as it's written down it's fine. Communicating face to face leads to misunderstandings.

completely open offices probably result in higher an-hero rates. It's just that they're a newer meme so not enough data yet to fully demonstrate.

That room is not mega, and the desks are spaced pretty far apart.

Still, I would have put up some sound absorbing separating walls.
Put 4 to 6 people in a compartment.

Putting guys in a single room is autism tier.
In fact the only guy I've worked with who had his own room had genuine autism.

ask for a laptop and go sit on a couch.

I've actually been told this

>they're a newer meme
It was a hype in the early 2000's, and got a boost during the economic crisis.
Companies are already coming back from it.

As for cubicles causing suicides: it's because of the lack of sunlight.
Our law states that office employees must have access to sunlight.

slack is the worst office fad since open offices. I'm constantly getting distracted by all the pointless channels setup by managers that I have to read or I'll get blamed for poor communication. Things were much better when you got sent a couple of emails a day and weren't expected to respond instantly

BEEP BEEP, CARTRACE!!

LETS HAVE A CHAI BREAK!!

PUPPY PLAY TIME

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I'd prefer OPs image to my old cubicle hell. I worked at the former Bell Labs building.

I wanna talk to my fellow white supremacists. Not hide from them

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Am I the only that prefers modern, cozy, open plan offices? It just feels more energetic when you are surrounded by people working hard, and it is pretty convenient when you want to have a quick chat with someone. As long as there are plenty of meetings rooms and suicide booths for cals then it is fine. My only requirement is I need plenty of whiteboards close by.

In my current lab, I share a medium office with only 2 guys and it awkward as fuck. In an open space office it is easier to just blen with the crowd.

Is that the Murray-Hill building? I guess it most have been nicer than the Helsinki's site. Which was not that bad, but a bit cheap.

>Everyone needs to do their part sweety. You boys cant dump all the hard work on female programmers
Did Israel just wake up?
It's always the same god damn time of day that these baiters post.

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No, this is Patrick.

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why are you showing a picture of a cafeteria

I have a feeling they're illegal in many countries for a good reason. Back in the day these offices were probably common and then as people saw the problem with this environment, legislation was made to curb it.

>pretty convenient when you want to have a quick chat with someone
Thats my problem with open offices. I probably get a couple of dozen people a day come up and ask me something that could have been an email. Its really distracting when you're trying to focus

The only office job I've ever liked was this biomedical research center I worked at during college. I even got my own office, and the work environment was very chill. I normally got my work done extremely quickly and then got to spend a lot of time just watching youtube or playing emulators.

After graduating I went to work at pfizer, but the Office Space corporate bullshit got to me, so I just went into retail. So much better getting to interact with real people rather than in an office where everyone is doing this Stepford Wives bullshit

Cry harder racist.
Women are the future, and yes that does include transwomen
Cry harder fuckboi
Maybe you shouldn't focus so hard are other people :) maybe you should focus on your work :)
Just a thought :)
Mocking team building doesnt make you look cool. It makes you look really shallow and ignorant.

50% ironic shitposting
50% butthurt middle-management/HR

>transwomen
Have no future except as sex slaves.
Which is arguably not really slavery to masochists.

OH WOW! LOOK AT THAT I CAN SEE YOU FUTURE!
>(BANNED FOR TROLLING)
>(BANNED FOR DRIVEBY SEXISM)
>(BANNED FOR LACK OF ARGUEMENT)
:)

:^)

You both need to leave.

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:)

(^:

Okay, now this is epic

>hide small battery powered bluetooth speaker
>play wet fart noises at random intervals during meetings

is this a new meme?

Never worked in a cubicle, but shouldn't it be the final evolution of this concept? Separate meeting rooms if you need meetings, place people close to their teammates so it's super easy to just stand up and talk face to face, and everyone still has their own private space that they can modify and use to express themselves. It's just a version of the "open concept" that has all the supposed benefits plus privacy

>use to express themselves
onions
Do work.

>what is slack
tfw when sharing information with a teammate sitting literally next to me on slack while we both wear Bose Comforts

Developers really are the african americans of the workforce

I never in a million years thought I would say this, but I miss my cubicle.

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unironically untrue. I cant literally type code if someones is watching me. It feels like they are judging each line you write

Pretty fucked up
Why do you feel the need to attack transpeople?
Is it that small penis in your pants showing? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm? Is it showing?
Is that ricedick showing?

Shift the blame to coworkers being annoying and ruining your productivity

I remember when it was hot to shit on cubicles instead.
They're not gonna give every code monkey their own office so at least pick one thing you hate and stick to it.

cringed

That looks soulless

that just shows you how bad things have gotten. Cubicles are a godsend compared to having no barriers at all.

Post the one with the wage cage

>I'm only pretending to be stupid

sweet jesus, uncle ted was right

capitalism, everybody

oh waaaaaaagieeee~

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tbqh I'd much rather spend my time stocking bullshit at home depot rather than working as a corporate officedrone. Of course that's not taking pay into consideration.

I work in a semi-open office now, I don't get the hate. The physical layout of the space matters a lot less to me than the work I do and the type of people I work with, both of which is good.

>Disgusting fascist fuckboy
>Go back to your containment board Jow Forumstard
>Everyone needs to do their part sweety. You boys cant dump all the hard work on female programmers. Step up and do your part like everyone else.
Now, now, don't get all riled up and excited.

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what's that? I hear a white little beta cuck? Itty bitty rice dick? Little pittyful Rick dicked betamale. Do you need a fat BBC shoved into your twink anus? Little rice dick penis?
Hm? HMMMMMMMMMMM?

Please lurk a little and learn how to bait

Old Bell labs
Because theres no fucking pictures. Here is an example company. They're all the fuckin same.
.

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No en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex

Umm, we prefer actual conversations dear

looks like a call center

I love having an office with a door desu senpai.

zoomer here
why did they think this was ever good

>tfw read hentai all the time and get a boner and precum at work
wtf is wrong with me

>becoming aroused by porn
I'm so far past that guys. I'm 21 and hentai usually doesn't even do it for me anymore.

helsinki is gay
dont go there
t. benis x---_DD

They know it's not good. They know it's uncomfortable and awkward to be organized as if in a study group, even when not working on a project together.

They do it as a flex on the lowly wagies underneath them, and because they know that the lack of any personal boundaries between co-workers will foster an atmosphere of paranoia and judgment coercing wagies to work harder and harder to not look bad in front of each other and the boss.