I Asked What it Would Take to Get Gen Z Back to the Office: “Private Offices, Man. Microsoft Gives Them to Everybody”
30th November 2022
I worked in ‘open offices’ a lot in tech, and hated every minute of it. In an ‘open office’, you are in involuntary participant in everybody else’s conversation. If you are doing intellectual work (like, say, programming or data modeling), concentration is impossible. Productivity falls through the floor. The money management saves is obvious; the loss of productivity is not; and so we all wind up living in a Dilbert cartoon.