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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. --- End quote --- 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 --- End quote --- 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) --- End quote --- 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.. --- End quote --- 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). --- End quote --- 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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