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Sal Ammoniac:
Some companies, such as Facebook, take open plan offices to the next level. In those companies, you don't even have a dedicated desk. You take whatever desk is available when you're there. I suppose companies do this because they think it saves even more money than open plan offices with dedicated desks for each employee.
tooki:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on February 12, 2020, 05:12:19 pm ---Some companies, such as Facebook, take open plan offices to the next level. In those companies, you don't even have a dedicated desk. You take whatever desk is available when you're there. I suppose companies do this because they think it saves even more money than open plan offices with dedicated desks for each employee.

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yyyyyyeah, I brought up hot-desking several days ago in reply #59.
Someone:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on February 12, 2020, 06:15:41 am ---But there are some areas where the workers are not allowed to use headphones, "because it looks bad"  |O
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A rule I encountered at an employer:
No headphones allowed at any time.
Rationale: some people turn up the volume so loud they cannot hear the fire alarms (after someone claimed this was the reason they didn't evacuate)
Circlotron:

--- Quote from: Someone on February 13, 2020, 01:27:57 am ---[A rule I encountered at an employer:
No headphones allowed at any time.
Rationale: some people turn up the volume so loud they cannot hear the fire alarms (after someone claimed this was the reason they didn't evacuate)

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At a place I worked at once.
They said no headphones for safety reasons, and that safety was the /*most*/ important thing.
Then they found that productivity dropped, so headphones were allowed again.  :-DD
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 12, 2020, 07:44:30 am ---
--- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on February 12, 2020, 02:50:00 am ---Enclosed spaces provide for more concentration levels as the amount of visual and sound disturbances are minimised. You could set your own lighting levels as well. I think it comes down to the floor space requirement which comes at a premium. One can have an open office space of 6ft x 6ft and still not feel claustrophobic. But for a dedicated office with closed doors, you may need at least 8ft x 8ft of space, if not more. Almost double the floor space..

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Duh, nobody doesn’t understand that open plans are cheaper. Our point is that it’s a false economy to save a few hundred bucks a month on rent, at the expense of a few thousand bucks of productivity (and the employees’ sanity).

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Companies do dumb stuff like this routinely.

When I worked in TV, I could replace 27" Broadcast monitor CRTs at $1200 "a pop", several times a year, without them turning a hair,
& "the biggie", -----------replace the Final tube in an NEC TV Transmitter, at $12,000! *
I had to get permission to spend Petty Cash, though! ;D

*The PA tube price sounds horrendous, & there were cheaper suppliers, but the Boss ruled them out, due to longevity problems.
The ones we used lasted for many thousands of hours.
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