Anyone has experience with this? There are rumors that my group is switching to Open Office Seating and they are selling it to us as a 'great improvement' and 'collaboration enhancement' - honestly I am not so sure, I'd bet there will be drawbacks. Anyone here as this setup right now? Or, have you had it before joining Qualcomm? Please let me know. #openoffice #openofficeseating
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Germs spread easily in open office and then white noise will be needed because of everyone talking at the same time with their sound carrying across the room. Supervisors telling everyone to be quite and considerate of others. Well they need to sit next to each other themselves.
will be tricky to break wind
Who gets the honor ? Director and below ? or VP and below ? or CEO and below ?
One advantage is that it'll become super obvious how many folks wander into the office around 11am and head off for lunch at 12pm.
body odor huge concern. my beats headphones no help time to bring out insence candles
ask BDC
Right after 'openofficeseating' will be 'hotdesking'. That is coming back again; lets face it, most of the time loadsa desks are unoccupied what with WFH, NFW and meetings. Really only need 5 desks per 10 engineers. 5 at works, 2 at meetings, 1 WFH and 2 NFW.
Saves on heating, A/C and lots money savings for the bean counters.
Excess desks on Craigslist to help fund the legal cases.
Welcome to the real world Neo.
You will hate it, but your micro-managers will love it. @ovl is probably one of those managers.
If you actually do work, then it doesn’t matter.
I once answered an overly optimistic friend, who asked me if cubicles were our future at Qualcomm, that, yes, if we're lucky.
We were both laid-off before the move to cubicles. Of course we really were lucky, that's why we were able to volunteer for the lay-off and walk away into retirement with a year's severance pay.
It's a cool story bro.
It’s all about cost savings.
There are no drawbacks, its awesome. SM and GD told me so. Their private Gulfstreams are all 'open office' and it works well for them.
it's a scam. they will cram in about 40% more people if they bring down cubes. that's why they are doing it. i dont know where you work and what your current layout is, but it's likely a trap. you cannot do anything about it though, so no reason to stress out. i'll tell you what will happen, there will be some people who will be so p-ss-d that they will start leaving. q does not care, and this will just fly. f--- it.