It treats people like cattle, thrown into the same homogeneous pen together. It can't possibly be about "collaboration" because private offices don't impede on collaboration. It's about fitting as many people into as cheap of a space as possible. And because Facebook has done it, now everyone and their brother is going to start implementing it in their startups, if they haven't already.
People used to complain about not having a corner office, then about having a cubical while the VPs had offices. Now no one has an office but people still complain. It's impossible for Facebook to give all of its employees offices, so what's the best solution? (People are overreacting to a single sentence by Zuckerberg anyways, the new Facebook headquarters has tons of conference rooms and private nooks.)
Source? At the most basic level, having a wall between two people makes it harder to collaborate than no wall by the sheer fact that the other person can't hear you.
moron4hire|11 years ago
onewaystreet|11 years ago
mynameisvlad|11 years ago
Source? At the most basic level, having a wall between two people makes it harder to collaborate than no wall by the sheer fact that the other person can't hear you.