Anyone been inside the Hub? Just curious what the general work spaces look like? Cubes or 1 long desk with several stations (like a call center)? Thx
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All workstations are treadmill desks which will aid in powering the BEV chargers used by the execs.
@js They would be entitled to “managerial volume”, a booming, god-like voice.🤣
Management would probably be much happier about people working remotely if there would be some way for MS Teams to display their importance and power.
Maybe have some regal false background for managers only. Maybe make their audio twice as loud as GSRs. They kind of thing.
By the e way, privacy in the workplace is a status symbol, part of the pecking order. The more privacy you have, the higher your rank.
I think that is one of the driving factors for RTO. When you work remotely, everyone is just a disembodied voice and an image on a screen. It puts us all at the same level as the boss and they can’t flex their status symbols. That vexes them mightily.
All closed in offices, like the 1950s
Like the 1950’s?
When I started at Ford there were still some office areas that looked like they hadn’t been updated since the 1950. They were just one big room, desk after desk after desk, no partitions.
Cubicles are an 80s/90s thing and a major improvement in work life for office workers.
You want to know what an office was like at a big company back in the 1950s and 60s? Look at some still shots from the movie The Apartment with Jack Lemmon. There were places at Ford that looked like this.
https://aurorasginjoint.com/2017/08/19/a-look-at-billy-wilders-the-apartment-office-wise/
Understand: The “open office” is a regression to much older ways.
We stand
Ask Ford Land.
All closed in offices, like the 1950s, people smoking and everyone has a secretary.
Ford is in a tailspin and iron are worried about coming back to the office.P
AEC and PFSL have the same layout. I retired before I had to move back upstairs to the new layout at AEC. It is supposed to promote a better environment for sharing ideas and communication but from what I witnessed at PFSL on several occasion, everyone kept to themselves and did their jobs. It was quiet unlike the 2nd floor where I worked at AEC before the open plan change.
Maybe it is a generational thing! :)
No cubicles, no partitions. Open seating like Rotunda Training center.