Love this passage from the Max Barry book, Company. A great way of describing my feelings on personal offices and why I’ll never have one again.
Like every other department in Zephyr, Training Sales has an open floor plan, which means everyone works in a sprawling cubicle farm except the manager, who has an office with a glass internal wall, across which blinds are permanently drawn. Open-plan seating, it has been explained in company-wide memos, increases teamwork and boosts productivity.
Except in managers, that is, whose productivity tends to be boosted by – and the memos don’t say this, but the conclusion is inescapable – corner offices with excellent views.
Also, thanks Greg for the suggestion to read Company. Good read.
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