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  1. One wonders how much #WorkFromHome productivity advantages come from the changeover from cubicles to #OpenPlan offices.

    https://youtu.be/z_p7W3g3UVg?si=-jmuF5TXz0iIU75G

  2. Want to make everyone else in your #OpenPlan office hate you? Be a group of 3-4 who have decided to all cluster around one person's computer to have a video call with someone. So that you need to speak out loud for the remote person to hear you, and you've got the computer's speakers up so you can all hear that person.

    So that *all of us* can — and *must* — hear all of you.😠

    Seriously. Get a room. One of those little rooms that are *just for this purpose*.

    #OpenOfficesSuck #OpenOffice #office

  3. The Inter-University Seminar House in Hachioji, Tokyo, by Takamasa Yoshizaka, was completed in 1965. This iconic complex merges modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics, creating a space that fosters academic exchange and collaboration.

    archeyes.com/inter-university-

    #TakamasaYoshizaka #architecture #architectuur #modernism #1960s #Tokyo #Japan #Japaneseart #Japanese #brutalist #brutalism #openplan #openspace #concreteart #concrete #betonbrut

  4. The Inter-University Seminar House in Hachioji, Tokyo, by Takamasa Yoshizaka, was completed in 1965. This iconic complex merges modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics, creating a space that fosters academic exchange and collaboration.

    archeyes.com/inter-university-

    #TakamasaYoshizaka #architecture #architectuur #modernism #1960s #Tokyo #Japan #Japaneseart #Japanese #brutalist #brutalism #openplan #openspace #concreteart #concrete #betonbrut

  5. The Inter-University Seminar House in Hachioji, Tokyo, by Takamasa Yoshizaka, was completed in 1965. This iconic complex merges modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics, creating a space that fosters academic exchange and collaboration.

    archeyes.com/inter-university-

    #TakamasaYoshizaka #architecture #architectuur #modernism #1960s #Tokyo #Japan #Japaneseart #Japanese #brutalist #brutalism #openplan #openspace #concreteart #concrete #betonbrut

  6. The Inter-University Seminar House in Hachioji, Tokyo, by Takamasa Yoshizaka, was completed in 1965. This iconic complex merges modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics, creating a space that fosters academic exchange and collaboration.

    archeyes.com/inter-university-

    #TakamasaYoshizaka #architecture #architectuur #modernism #1960s #Tokyo #Japan #Japaneseart #Japanese #brutalist #brutalism #openplan #openspace #concreteart #concrete #betonbrut

  7. The Inter-University Seminar House in Hachioji, Tokyo, by Takamasa Yoshizaka, was completed in 1965. This iconic complex merges modernist principles with traditional Japanese aesthetics, creating a space that fosters academic exchange and collaboration.

    archeyes.com/inter-university-

    #TakamasaYoshizaka #architecture #architectuur #modernism #1960s #Tokyo #Japan #Japaneseart #Japanese #brutalist #brutalism #openplan #openspace #concreteart #concrete #betonbrut

  8. 80% of #neurodivergent people are (like me) #underemployed or #unemployed. Traditional #interview processes, #openplan offices and the need to comply with social expectations stop us gaining and retaining gainful employment. We are #DisabledByDesign, #disabled by majority *choice*.

    But valuing us only for our economic output, or adding "new skillsets" and "#inspiration to a workplace" is not #inclusion. It is dehumanizing.

    #autistic #adhd #dyslexia #neurodiversity

    theguardian.com/global-develop

  9. 80% of #neurodivergent people are (like me) #underemployed or #unemployed. Traditional #interview processes, #openplan offices and the need to comply with social expectations stop us gaining and retaining gainful employment. We are #DisabledByDesign, #disabled by majority *choice*.

    But valuing us only for our economic output, or adding "new skillsets" and "#inspiration to a workplace" is not #inclusion. It is dehumanizing.

    #autistic #adhd #dyslexia #neurodiversity

    theguardian.com/global-develop

  10. 80% of #neurodivergent people are (like me) #underemployed or #unemployed. Traditional #interview processes, #openplan offices and the need to comply with social expectations stop us gaining and retaining gainful employment. We are #DisabledByDesign, #disabled by majority *choice*.

    But valuing us only for our economic output, or adding "new skillsets" and "#inspiration to a workplace" is not #inclusion. It is dehumanizing.

    #autistic #adhd #dyslexia #neurodiversity

    theguardian.com/global-develop

  11. “Our company has embraced open-plan offices, because we have a culture of collaboration (distraction) and transparency (employee surveillance)!”

    #OpenPlan #distraction #workspaces #ReturnToOffice

  12. I know I can be a pill about cube farms and open-plan offices. I admit: there is no one-size-fits-all solution for work.

    I’m sure that open-plan offices have improved creativity and collaboration in many places, such as in the imaginations of executives who implement them.



    #OpenPlan #cubicles #ReturnToOffice #productivity

  13. On a related issue, Magda Mostafa was interviewed for a recent #ScientificAmerican article on #OpenPlan #office design:

    “You #design better for the #center when you learn from the #margins,” says Magda Mostafa of the American University in Cairo, an architect who focuses on design for #autism.

    Fixing the Hated Open-Design Office - scientificamerican.com/article

  14. When my company moved us from private offices to an #OpenPlan, they surveyed us about our workflow and needs. Then we discovered they’d already built out the space; the consultation process was a sham. This is common, as I write in #ScientificAmerican. A major insight from #InclusiveDesign, #DisabilityRights, and #DeafSpace is that people should be meaningfully involved in designing their physical environment. scientificamerican.com/article

  15. Would love to hear from scientists or other academics who currently work in large #openPlan offices with #hotdesking (+ only 70% of the desk space needed means lockers + absolutely no items left on desk overnight).

    How do you make it work? The combination of focused work, close collaboration with some colleagues and lots of online meetings with externals?

    What do I need to do now to prepare?

    (Also open to job offers...)

    Regards: a depressed scientist who has just seen the future #office.

  16. @marie_ahoi thanks for the tag! I love your description. One of the few accounts I know of someone enjoying an #openPlan #OfficeDesign in academia. Is disruption / noise an issue at all? Where do people go who need to concentrate?