The rules:
Does not apply to VP+. They get their own office (they don't work better together).
I'm checking out the other floors in the building. There are places to work in peace and quiet.
If it takes me three times as long to get something done in the new set up, so be it. I received the 1.3 to 1.0 message loud and clear. If my employer doesn't value me enough to give me my own lousy little space, then expect this job to become about nothing more than a paycheck. My willingness to work evenings, Friday offs and weekends will evaporate along with my assigned space and filing cabinets.
As long as I get my paycheck I'll sit in the cafeteria if they ask me to
@dh the new office in Perth is like this, all open plan and impossible to focus. For technical work, it was horrendous.
And whilst they have focus spaces for work that requires it, the micromanaging bosses get annoyed if you use them, and would very much prefer you be at your desk so you can be supervised like the peon you are.
Impediments to being productive in this office arrangement—- noise (I agree w wearing headphones); how to you keep documents confidential— no place to lock them up every time you leave work place (a briefcase is annoyance); keep personal information (your mother’s doctor calls to discuss her senior health issues (no way do you tell doctor hey hang on while I walk somewhere private)
The HMP people are clueless, and have never had to do any kind of technical work in their life.
The worst is how they keep saying how they "Benchmark" against our shoe-string independent competitors (who get paid 1.5x our salary)
4 days in the office, and having an unassigned office, while less than ideal, can be tolerable for work to still get done.
Forcing an open space in small cubes with low walls sets many types of jobs up to fail since it becomes so much harder to focus. If we will be forced into cubes, at least make the cubes with walls higher than heads when sitting down - makes focusing more possible and lowers disease transmission.
@d0 such is the American dream, that one must be grateful for any gainful employment, without consideration to the quality of life it affords.
How does this relate to layoffs in any way? Please quit posting anonymous bs that most employees don't care about. We care about jobs, and getting employed somewhere else if required.
I enjoy going to the office, sitting in a flex space and joining my teammates, who are sitting on the same floor, on a Teams conference call.
The 4 days a week in cramped space is the next tactic to encourage employees to leave so they have less severance to pay out in the next round of layoffs.
Flex space, inflex life. obviously Designed by lifelong bachelors mangers or fresh-out-of-college consultants with no ties and no toddlers. or some variant thereof.
I guess the early bird gets the flex space. Less traffic is just the icing on the cake.