I’ve had a couple of months in a cubicle ones and I found it kinda eerie. I think it’s because it’s very clear that we were 20 people in the same office each of us pretending to be alone. I’d much rather have a shared office space with, like, 10 people…
Shared office is even worse, everyone is loud, you’re missing the attenuation you had in your cubicle. Impossible to do phone calls / video calls without noise canceling headphones and good noise filtering. Ans when you’re at home trying to talk to someone on-site, you can hear three other colleagues chatting in the background. Hate this shit with a passion
Where I’m at now we have those phone booth-style boxes for (video-)calls. They are pretty horrible but a big improvement over having people making calls in the shared space.
in the 2000s I started a contract with 200 other cubicle workers (software support), but they decided at some point to cut it down to 20… so after a few months it was a cube wasteland with a core of ubercubes - each with 4-10 devboxes and displays for ad-hoc test environments… and it was like that for 8 months then we all got the ‘we’re not eliminating your positions, but the jobs are going to New Mexico, you want to move to Albuquerque right?’ axe.
I’ve had a couple of months in a cubicle ones and I found it kinda eerie. I think it’s because it’s very clear that we were 20 people in the same office each of us pretending to be alone. I’d much rather have a shared office space with, like, 10 people…
Are you sure? If you’ve tried it fine but it you’ve not tried it…woof
that’s wild to hear, cubicles sound great compared to the boiler rooms we have now
Shared office is even worse, everyone is loud, you’re missing the attenuation you had in your cubicle. Impossible to do phone calls / video calls without noise canceling headphones and good noise filtering. Ans when you’re at home trying to talk to someone on-site, you can hear three other colleagues chatting in the background. Hate this shit with a passion
Where I’m at now we have those phone booth-style boxes for (video-)calls. They are pretty horrible but a big improvement over having people making calls in the shared space.
It depends on the type of work and the people involved.
I worked in a team of developers and everyone who visited us commented how quiet it was…
in the 2000s I started a contract with 200 other cubicle workers (software support), but they decided at some point to cut it down to 20… so after a few months it was a cube wasteland with a core of ubercubes - each with 4-10 devboxes and displays for ad-hoc test environments… and it was like that for 8 months then we all got the ‘we’re not eliminating your positions, but the jobs are going to New Mexico, you want to move to Albuquerque right?’ axe.