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Juha Saarinen

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:17:30 +1200

Cubicles uncool. Offices with lockable doors better. Means you don't have to see your fellow salary slaves if you don't want to.

Beatrix

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:07:46 +1200

I vote open plan. But with a 'quiet phone' somewhere, in case you need to talk to someone about something sensitive (work related or not) and maybe don't need someone shouting with laughter behind you.

Martha Craig

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:17:19 +1200

I find ones home the finest place to work. No workmates, no boss, lots of chocolate and a couch.

Hamboy

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:40:41 +1200

Two words: Cellphone, Carpark

That was how we could tell if someone was going for a job somewhere else.

David Haywood

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:17:15 +1200

A very entertaining piece of writing, Mr Slack. Thank you!

Idiot Savant

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:04:45 +1200

you'd just be the guy in the middle of the office with the unloaded gun – a sitting duck

You mean you don't use a New York reload?

Evan Yates

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:27:27 +1200

Sam Morgan was out in the open on the office floor, alongside the call centre. He did admit to me it made some of the sale negotiations a bit tricky

Two words: Cellphone, Carpark

That's how I roll..

Ok on sunny days but wet winters are a bitch.

Tim Michie

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:24:47 +1200

Wired's Worst. Cubicles. Ever: True shockers.

Hmm... seem to have misplaced my link to the best ever cubicles...

And for that shared sense of struggle across Cubicland: http://www.nationalcubicleday.com/.

Russell Brown

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:51:44 +1200

I was always impressed that both before and after the sale of Trade Me, Sam Morgan was out in the open on the office floor, alongside the call centre. He did admit to me it made some of the sale negotiations a bit tricky ...

Mikaere Curtis

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:43:18 +1200

I work in an open plan office. It's cool, you don't have to get out of your seat to talk to someone. This is especially useful now that the Testing team have moved over here with us developers.

The boss is currently talking about adding partitions to the mix. He's…

Hamboy

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:06:04 +1200

I've worked in both open plan and in cubicles and there isn't much difference with the noise levels. In fact right now I can hear the phone conversion of someone several cubicles across. (Boring work stuff).
At least in a cubicle, one doesn't always have to feel like one has…

Paul Campbell

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:46:33 +1200

but without cubes how would one get that first stealthy nerf volley off without anyone knowing its source?

you'd just be the guy in the middle of the office with the unloaded gun – a sitting duck

Testcard

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:38:06 +1200

I dunno about this open plan thing, David.

Cubicles would mean that my colleagues' endless discussions on whether coffee makes one's thighs fat wouldn't be quite so prominent.

Che Tibby

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:17:48 +1200

jeeessus i wish i had stuck with my original line of study and become a geographer.

bureaucracy is... [not ideally suited to] my way of thinking.

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:12:58 +1200

Totally.

Cubes go with this uncommunicative culture where people are locked away from access. It used to be that you rang an office and somebody would pick up and tell you where the person you wanted had gone. Now it's voicemail in many cases, especially in the US.

Public Address

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:12:58 +1200

Discussion from blog post.