Comments | wanton_bliss: Another nail in privacy's coffin

wanton_bliss

Another nail in privacy's coffin

Jan 09, 2009 13:22

Our VP asked that cubicles be reconfigured to increase collaboration, but then left the specifics up to the self-organizing bureaucracy that exists below him. The result has been nonsensical arrangements that do nothing to further cross-team collaboration but obliterate all privacy for those unlucky enough to be sentenced to a four-person collab ( Read more... )

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thespos January 9 2009, 19:02:02 UTC

This probably won't help, but at my former company, we had our own cubes and sort of... meeting cubes. So we could meet easily as a group, or work independently. Some of us also had double cubes so we could hold small meetings, if needed.

wanton_bliss January 11 2009, 00:13:20 UTC

Yeah, that didn't help.

Maybe if all my coworkers worked at your former company it would.

jr_red January 9 2009, 19:43:48 UTC

While I can see the benefits to a change like this from a managers standpoint, it sure doesn't make a lot of sense when employees are still allowed to work from home.

It would make more sense to me if management was using this as a test to see which employees are worth holding on to after the next round of cuts.

wanton_bliss January 11 2009, 00:14:00 UTC

I assume we are defining "worth holding onto" as "willing to put up with anything?"

friendofjack January 9 2009, 22:53:40 UTC

Why does the VP want to discourage people from working from home? That's one of the single most requested benefits that employees want.

wanton_bliss January 11 2009, 00:16:01 UTC

Because in the end, the goal of an employer is get the most work out of the employees. There is a commonly held belief that employees working from home are less efficient than those working at the workplace where they are assumed to have less distractions and prove more responsive and readily accessible to their peers.

eyelid July 1 2009, 17:32:54 UTC

hey, whatever happened to you? did you die? I thought "nail in the coffin" was just a colorful analogy.

wanton_bliss July 1 2009, 22:06:41 UTC

I actually moved on. Not even faked moved on (like, I check LiveJournal once a week or so, but don't bother commenting) but rather forget that LiveJournal existed until I get email updates regarding it ( ... )

Not edduhduh October 16 2009, 16:56:35 UTC

sure if you're gonna see it. Happy Birthday!!