It’s a common occurrence: You’re sitting at your desk, lost in thought, trying to solve a problem that’s been blocking your work all week.
Deep in your brain you’re building a structure of thoughts and possibilities undreamed of in anyone’s philosophy: You identify concepts and
The reason our corporate overlords went to open office plans is that they are much less expensive than actual offices. All the other reasons were bullshit to justify enshittification.
I always thought about this. What about those with disabilities, like ADHD? Can companies really maintain their "equal opportunity employer" position while stripping privacy in the workplace? That's an over generalization for moving to an open office.
They will make a few exceptions then at some point say "that's enough" when all the employees need is less stimulation and more privacy
Sounds a lot like what Joel Spolsky was advocating for since 2003, although now it's easier since most people already have a private office, just not in "the office".
It would have been nice to have a connection made to Flow, since that's what was being alluded to throughout, but maybe excluding Flow was deliberate in some way I'm missing?
If I remember correctly there was a Japanese videogame studio who did that in the 80’s they locked their development team in the office. I can’t find the article any more though.