Has anyone heard how the people are adjusting to the new open space concept at UOP's new Rosemont headquarters?
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Speaking of the "open office" concept, I am working a contract job at a major aerospace company. The "regular" employees have cubicles or offices in large rooms with hundreds of employees each. Unfortunately the contract employees are crammed into a former conference room on the side of that room, and are at small school-like desks crammed with monitors and PCs, without a hint of desktop space nor storage for anything. You wanna know what an unproductive atmosphere the "open space" concept is? I'm living it. Constant noise and disruptions. Yesterday a raw sewage smell seeped into the room, and everyone left had to leave for the day. The only time I get anything done is working on an off-day or after-hours.
When I was in 4th grade, our school went to an “open plan.” The spaces were divided into “units,” with each unit equivalent to two grades.
It was a disaster. It was noisy, students were distracted, teachers hated it, and within a few years the building was repurposed to other functions.
Fifty years later, they’re still trying to make a bad idea work.
@9sop+1u82BeDv they give u that much break time at mcdonald's to scour this website?
They did this in Plant 1 in CLW. I left before hearing if it worked out.
So what’s the issue? Use the open concept to your advantage. They have created the best response to not meeting your expectations. If I was still working at UOP believe me I would you this as an excuse for everything. This is how it was before the 1970s. Why do upper management have conditions? In the military it is called RANK HAS ITS PRIVILEGES
Get back to work I would come back on contract. Just ask me.
Haha.. integrate leaders into openoffice. Yes when this was being introduced we heard quite a lot of promises how everybody including leaders will sit in openspace and share random seats. Reality is that higher leaders have office and low level leaders have own reserved table only for them. Of course some nice spot in quiet part of room with window and far from noisy doors. That is the reality where everybody is equal, but some are more equal.
@6ern+1u82BeDv Hum wonder how come UOP going down hill possible owners corporate greed?
what is the justification to have separate dedicated rooms for people higher up than directors?
Let's have them integrate to the open layout as well if they really think it's good for the rest of us.
@6ern+1u82BeDv it su-ks for people who need a quiet environment to work. having people around you and even 50 feet away talk is highly distracting to productivity. You can still hear people in the conference rooms, even with the noise cancelling headphones/earphones (not great to wear for a long time anyway).
It is good to collaborate, but highly counterproductive for getting work done. I won't be surprised if people leave b/c of this new environment.
Is it really that bad in the new place? I spent 11 years at the old UOP and we had our own offices and plenty of room. It seems like UOP has really gone downhill.
In EU I used to have nice own desk, own chair, own monitors, own cabinet. I was able to come at the morning, just bring myself a glass of water, plug in notebook and start working.
Now we have stupid shared space, we only have small locker. Booking system is unusable joke, so we are trying to find some seat every day we come to office. Some spots have broken chairs, some docking stations do not work, some screens are just stupid small ones. Most tables need cleaning before you touch them. Chairs are full of dust and sweaty. No personal space, no plants, just few own things in a box on table. Every day 15-20 minutes wasted at the morning just to prepare the place and another 10-15 minutes at the end to remove my things back to locker.
They turned quite interesting company into devastated disgusting place full of demotivated poisoned people. Congrats.
I dont know how they would do that, at least in CLT. There are way more people than desks. Some depts have 2-3 people per available chair.
@2iau+1u82BeDv don't get too comfortable with the 2 days wfh...i hear HON trying to change to 1 day wfh in the US.
So...like every horrible office I have worked in for 20 years? The only thing that makes open offices functional is WFH. I used to have panic attacks not being able to concentrate and being exhaused every day. Now I can WFH and get three times the work done so when I am back in the office, I dont have to panic if I dont accomplish a damn thing.
i heard that it is a challenge to focus when people (not just 1 or 2 people) around you in the office are talking. Personally, I need my surroundings to be completely quiet to work. This has been a challenge so far--even with noise cancelling earphones/headphones.
So, the new working space promotes more face to face interacting with people and at the same time is counterproductive for a quiet working environment. I have heard the same from colleagues in the Houston office as well.