Got the office to myself at the moment, which is good. But there is a spot for another person. I keep setting up desks elsewhere though so if someone new comes that's where they will sit, and I dump shit on the other desk in my office so it's undesirable.

Open plan is not cool or trendy, it is for cheap ass companies, and studies have shown it promotes low productivity for anything more than a menial task.

Better give links so I don't get nuked
More damaging evidence on open plan offices
Open-plan offices can reduce productivity and clean desks can shrink brains - study
First couple results on google ^

last edited by thermite at 13:47:52 13/Jul/12

We're 1/2 open plan where we work. Mixed feelings about it in the office, wasn't the best for me because I lost my window seat, but I have my back to a wall now and only 1 other person can see my screen without me seeing them first.

As Ticman said, loud people are a lot more annoying too, but the loud chick in the office can be heard through the fire door wall at full volume anyway. Her voice doesn't seem to be hampered by anything, walls or otherwise. And it does help that she'll yell across the office to people to take the phones off forward etc.

i love the idea!

At my work I moved half of my stuff into the engineering lab so that I could spend >75% of my time away from the open-ish plan office. Fuck being packed like sardines and having to listen to people's bodily functions (sniffing, coughing, snorting, sudden mega-sneezes that can be heard from across the building) or yelling on the phone the whole bloody day and breaking your concentration. Half the people in the company have earphones on for most of the day.

Open-plan is fine if you don't need much productivity in your company.

last edited by parabol at 15:15:01 13/Jul/12

dazhel you should show her who's boss

dazhel you should show her who's boss

I do, by passive aggressively leaving DND on for longer than is necessary whenever she whinges. :P