Still can't beat working from home in my pajamas.

Imagine things being so bad we want what our parents thought was crap.

Work from home is the best, having a office with a door is second, but cube life wasn't that bad, I had fabric walls I could pin stuff to, a little rear view mirror on my monitor, and my own set of file drawers that I didn't have to share with anyone.

Yeah I used to think call center half cubes were bad (I missed the full cube days), then I got switched to an "open concept" office and I'm convinced I did maybe 1 week of full, real work in that office in a total of 5 years. Until lockdowns and suddenly everyone kept working, and even better than before. Obviously no lessons were learned from this.

I've never had a cubicle job, but my autistic brain thinks it's great, it's like one step below a dedicated office. I can't think of any other way to give a bunch of people pseudo-privacy and a consistent space to keep their stuff.

Open workspaces just sound like a way to cheap out on furniture and remove any pretense of privacy.

I dunno, 100x better? I mean, maybe like 2.5x better. Let's not get carried away. This still fucking sucks.

The problem of the cubicle is the lack of privacy. Which is why workers always coveted the offices, with their fancy doors that could close.

The solution to the cubicle, which offered little privacy, seems to have been to just remove the tiny bit of privacy they did offer, and call it a "concept."

Yeah you'll get the "concept" of work from me tyvm.

For me, it doesn't matter the office plan as long as I'm not working for Private Equity owned retail for less than peanuts.

I can't say that these things were great, but at least they are better than the stupid countertops we have now. I'm so over hearing about how they promote collaboration. They don't and collaboration is not needed nor desired 100% of the time. That's the purpose of meetings and meeting rooms.

If they're so fucking great, make the c-suite sit in them full time. No office, no escape to travel all over the place for no good reason. No drawers for anything. No protection from sound, everyone can see your monitors. Go ahead, COLLABORATE ALL YOU LIKE.

This reminds me of a skeleton I saw in the Tromso Arctic Museum. A teenage boy who had a life of such hard labor, his bones were worn out. How did people do that from their earliest memories until they died?

So glad I live in germany where the law mandates that every permanent office workplace needs to have access to sunlight

Fully open and fully cube are both bad. Having a small open area for your team with walls keeping other teams out is much better.

I would actually kill for an office job after spending years working retail 10 hours a day no breaks by myself.

So true

Me too the open room shit has got to go. Some people need private space to function.

First job was like this, one cubicle was the size of four of these and one person per corner with 2m space between each desk . Tons of plants all around, cube was next to a window. Temperature was constant, work was easy enough to slack off sometimes weeks at a time.

Privacy wasn't the best, but no one in my 6 years working there could differentiate between me reading a book on the screen and actually working lol. Its just words on the screen, make it look like work and you can do everything. Boss even called me a model worker at a yearly review when I myself thought I might be pushing it too far. Seems I wasn't slacking off nearly enough!

Anyway, I know this isn't indicative of cubicles, but if you're the right type of person, they can be a good place to work. If you can still find any.

And even open office plan is better than working in the rain.

Beats working in the rain.

I hate open workspaces so much I'll actually decline a position over it.

It's not some minor inconvenience. It's my 2nd home for potentially the rest of my life. Give me my fucking privacy to work. It requires an extra foot of vertical cubicle space and if you can't provide that you're not the kind of organization I want to give the rest of my life to.

So lately our work has shrunk the cubicles to fit more people and the latest we measured we had a 5'x5' cube with lower walls, the minimum required size for a individual goat pen.

We're no longer cattle, we're goats now but still just a cost account to be slaughtered.

So now we get the worst of both worlds where we're given less space than a convicted criminal and we get to hear everything like an open layout.

Only 40?

Much much better than an open office plan.

Yeah I dream of a full cubicle. I once had an interview that would have put my desk on a factory production floor to ensure that people felt comfortable approaching the engineer with problems. That's what walks are for! Well that and killing time while bored at work

/Grabs cheeks. Listen to me!: People like different things! Some people like cubicles, some hate them. Some like open office plans, some hate them. Some like Working from home, some hate it!

I prefer open plan office because I like being around the nice people who I sit with.

Y'all not thinking big enough. Work from home should be possible for everyone in an office job.

And more importantly, you should have democratic control over your workplace, so should be able to decide for yourselves.

Who cares about the open plan offices, we need socialism.