James Daulton
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Was recently talking to a dude who works for a large multi-national insurance company. He said that his company is re configuring their office space and doing away with offices. They are going to some kind of pod concept where desks are organized in pods of 5 and there are no walls. No offices no cubes no privacy. The idea according to him is to do away with the time people waste not working while at their desk space and making everyone's actions transparent and accountable to everyone.
He said the concept is similar to the old IBM days from the 50's where desks were lined up next to each other in a huge open space. Apparently even the C suite folks won't have offices (those will be used for conference rooms).
Does anyone else work in such an environment? I'm pretty sure if my company went in this direction I'd quit.
He said the concept is similar to the old IBM days from the 50's where desks were lined up next to each other in a huge open space. Apparently even the C suite folks won't have offices (those will be used for conference rooms).
Does anyone else work in such an environment? I'm pretty sure if my company went in this direction I'd quit.
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