You don’t even get a cubicle anymore, here’s a lopsided ikea desk you share with three other people.
life purpose
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ag10n@lemmy.world 1 day ago
kautau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also now your boss can stare at you from his glass office door and see if you’re laughing too much and then Lumbergh you
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeaaaaaah…I’m gonna need you to come in on Saturday…9am…
QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Yeah, it’s both funny and terrifying how cubicles were a symbol of a dystopia, and now, with open space offices, people would kill for the cubicles.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 hours ago
Cubicles look bad especially when you use a matrix-era picture, but if you’re not getting a personal office or work from home, it’s the best option.
Logical@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Sure would rather have one of those than the open office landscape I have now.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Some people really undervalue the idea of having workers not feel pressured and having some privacy. You might get 10-20% more productivity out of them in the short term, but it raises stress a ton, destroys their mental health, and you probably lose that extra efficiency in burn out and depressed workers anyways, I er the long term it taints everything the company touches. It destroys morale, makes every interaction with a customer slightly worse, makes every work they do worse.
Open layouts are terrible, humans are not designed to exist in an environment where they are constantly monitored. People have to take breaks sometimes, people have bad days sometimes. The way you deal with this from a management perspective is you look at their average efficiency over longer periods of time and judge their worth based on that, but while preserving their humanity and autonomy. Humans are not meant to be drones, and good workers come from having happy and healthy workers.
bebabalula@feddit.dk 13 hours ago
I’ve had a couple of months in a cubicle ones and I found it kinda eerie. I think it’s because it’s very clear that we were 20 people in the same office each of us pretending to be alone. I’d much rather have a shared office space with, like, 10 people…
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 hours ago
Are you sure? If you’ve tried it fine but it you’ve not tried it…woof
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Shared office is even worse, everyone is loud, you’re missing the attenuation you had in your cubicle. Impossible to do phone calls / video calls without noise canceling headphones and good noise filtering. Ans when you’re at home trying to talk to someone on-site, you can hear three other colleagues chatting in the background. Hate this shit with a passion
bebabalula@feddit.dk 9 hours ago
Where I’m at now we have those phone booth-style boxes for (video-)calls. They are pretty horrible but a big improvement over having people making calls in the shared space.
shane@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
It depends on the type of work and the people involved.
I worked in a team of developers and everyone who visited us commented how quiet it was…
SethW@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
that’s wild to hear, cubicles sound great compared to the boiler rooms we have now
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
in the 2000s I started a contract with 200 other cubicle workers (software support), but they decided at some point to cut it down to 20… so after a few months it was a cube wasteland with a core of ubercubes - each with 4-10 devboxes and displays for ad-hoc test environments… and it was like that for 8 months then we all got the ‘we’re not eliminating your positions, but the jobs are going to New Mexico, you want to move to Albuquerque right?’ axe.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Our Japan office went through a renovation after many years of the same old (like 30 year old) desks sitting side by side in an open space to a more modern open space. One big change though: no one has an assigned work space. You put your stuff in a box and then work out of that at whatever position you get that day. Meanwhile, the boss, went from sitting with everyone else to have his own private office with all his MLB, NFL, and other crap all over the walls and shelves.
Luckily I don’t work in the Japan office.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 hours ago
Hot desks means it’s time to leave, good work
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
So unhygienic!
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Cube farms weren’t that bad.
SoloCritical@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The children yearn for the cube
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
I mean, compared to the chaotic and loud open space bullshit? Yeah! I yearn for the cube 100%!
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
AI crap. The lady on the lower left has a cardboard box for a monitor.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
We have come so far people don’t know what a terminal is
madjo@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
That’s not a cardboard box, that’s a microfiche viewer.
Im_old@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That looks more like a specialized terminal for some kind of data.
Evotech@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I don’t think this is ai. It’s too consistent
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It looks like a microfiche machine. How old is this photo?
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Very little info online. This is either an IBM or Ericsson office circa 1995.
Biggles@lemmy.myserv.one 10 hours ago
Perhaps she’s new and lied on her resume.
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I kinda miss my desk cubicle. Now I can see other people and I have less desk flair now with hotdesks. Still, get to work from home in my own personal bombsite.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
WFH pros: you don’t see your coworkers and don’t even need to leave the house!
WFH cons: you don’t see your coworkers and don’t even need to leave the house!
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
My biggest pro was my social life vastly improving after switching to WFH. As a naturally introverted person, I burned all my social energy at the office and nights/weekends went into hermit mode. Now I’m sitting on my charger all day while I work and actually have the energy to see my friends.
aarch0x40@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t like to talk about my flair.
MakingWork@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Almost thought this was LinkedIn for a second.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
LinkedIn Park.
craaawwwwwling iiiiinnnnnnn my cuuuuuuuuuube
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I applied so hard
And gone so far
In the end
They didn’t even hire
ShadowRam@fedia.io 1 day ago
Look at all that collaborative productive work culture!
aarch0x40@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Corporate Accounts Payable Nina speaking, JUST a moMENT!
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
easy work in an air-conditioned office
despair
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I do feel like a dick sitting in my office going “oh my fingies is cold, burrr” in the middle of summer watching the laborers at office nextdoor tarring a new roof in the baking sun.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I really hate the half-cubes.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 23 hours ago
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That looks just like the call center I used to work in.
So dumb that it’s ai when places like these are everywhere…
Lexam@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Most people think the cubicle is a downgrade from what we had before. I think this comes from people believing these people would be in offices if not for the cubicle farm. In reality most of these people would be in a open environment with desks next to each other. The cubicle was the upgrade.
tino@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I worked in open spaces with more than 300 desks per floor aligned next to each other and no walls. You can’t talk, you are always making eye contact with people you don’t even know, your screen is constantly visible to the others and you can’t keep anything personal next to you. A cubicle would have been a dream in comparison.
noxypaws@pawb.social 1 day ago
My first tech job gave me a cubicle in an office. Then at Amazon I had a desk in a team room, which was nice. Then we got moved to open layout, which was dogshit fucking horrible. I’ve long since left that hellish company and enjoy my own office at home, but yeah I totally agree that cubicles were much better than at least the tech industry norm these days.
kautau@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I also sort of blame it on the social media culture of being “constantly connected.” In some workplace cultures, (especially outside the dev space), not being constantly visible and grinning is the same as not consistently posting happy updates on your feed and consuming them.
I remember in my last job we had an “open office” plan after buying and renovating a huge space, and I found a niche little area to set up my desk without people staring at me and when people came to ask me questions they would say shit like “oh so this is where you’re hiding!”
Yes, on company property in the main workroom seated at my company desk using my company computer.
Thankfully my new job is fully remote, so fuck all that weird social noise when at the end of the day I’m just whoring my brain and fingers out so I can pay my rent and buy groceries
bryndos@fedia.io 22 hours ago
My first job was all small rooms of 4-6 desks. Rigid desks, with stuff like drawers where you could keep stuff. Enough space for a few desktop computers, crt monitors, in trays, out trays, reference books and files and still space to work.
Way better than the open plan that came along and the desks gradually shrank down to a small square on a single large shared table who'se thin badly supported top is vibrating from everyone else typing.
I'm sure a 70s typing pool type situation would have been worse - but personally my situation has regressed a lot closer to that now. WFH is more productive just because i have enough space for the way i work.
I'd love a cubicle office - never actually worked in one - but I doubt it be as good as the small room setup was .
Logical@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Small room with enough desks for just the immediate team and plenty of space in the desks would be my dream. Maybe a whiteboard or two. That would be excellent.