[mandown]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/01/the-open-office-trap.html

In 2011, the organizational psychologist Matthew Davis reviewed more than a hundred studies about office environments. He found that, though open offices often fostered a symbolic sense of organizational mission, making employees feel like part of a more laid-back, innovative enterprise, they were damaging to the workers’ attention spans, productivity, creative thinking, and satisfaction. Compared with standard offices, employees experienced more uncontrolled interactions, higher levels of stress, and lower levels of concentration and motivation. When David Craig surveyed some thirty-eight thousand workers, he found that interruptions by colleagues were detrimental to productivity, and that the more senior the employee, the worse she fared.

side note - interesting phrase in the last quoted line.

 

[jonKranked]

but it pays well, so there's that.

 

[mandown]

 

[Pesqueeb]

I love working by myself.

 

[Da Peach]

What's a normal office vs. an open office?

 

[CBJ]

What about a normal open office?

 

[syadasti]

What's a normal office vs. an open office?

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/

https://www.openoffice.org/

Also Open Office was forked:

http://www.libreoffice.org/

Or maybe you meant something like this:

http://qz.com/161210/zappos-is-going-holacratic-no-job-titles-no-managers-no-hierarchy/

 

[StiHacka]

I am rotting inside out in my office, especially after beans or cabbage soup.

 

[jonKranked]

I am rotting inside out in my office, especially after beans or cabbage soup.

crop dust that sht yo

 

[mandown]

crop dust that sht yo

time for a leg stretch past the CFO's office.

 

[jimmydean]

crop dust that sht yo

I liked the open environment at my last gig, but I hate the people I work with here, so I'm glad I have a cube to hide in. Mine is in the "new" section, so I am away from everyone.

 

[bizutch]

Careful. Crop dusting in a cube farm often leads to prairie dogging.

 

[jonKranked]

Careful. Crop dusting in a cube farm often leads to prairie dogging.

only if you're an amateur

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Careful. Crop dusting in a cube farm often leads to prairie dogging.

6.5ft cube walls ftw

 

[Sandwich]

ha! I have no privacy at all! I don't even have cube walls! Of course, I got close to 20g's in a raise from my last position where I had an office with a window AND a door...so I'd say I'm more satisfied. I just stack my extra cash around my desk like I had walls.

 

[CBJ]

I have tried both and wish there was a combination. Some work I do I would love and office but mostly enjoy the open office I have now