Better this than an open plan office.
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After I moved to 100% HO I now realize that some CEOs main task is to make peoples lifes more and more miserable.
I loved when I worked in an open-plan office! Of course though the people around me hated it as I was a bit of a distraction.
Yeah I was going to say the same. This is actually decent. My old office before they renovated to open plan looked a lot like this. I think I had that chair! And that ceiling! Hey, wait a minute! This IS my old office!!
Well turn one of those monitors to portrait and that could actually be a functional workspace.
Be an IT guru and reset Jennifer's password 20 times a month.
Also we didn't consult you and have got all our stuff iPad pros for some reason, which in no way will interface with any of our software. Somehow that's your fault.
My favourite workspace was when I was just stuffed under a stairwell. There were very few interruptions because the only way to talk to me was to stand in the hallway blocking traffic.
I showed up, got my work done, dicked around with research projects, wandered the halls talking to people about the kinds of issues they were having and offering ad-hoc training, went home. It was more like a hobby than work.
I loved my Harry Potter office when I had it. The door was actually on the back side of the staircase instead of the side, so lots of people didn't even know I was there.
Years ago I worked at a brewery.
They had offices but no spaces available in that part of the facility when I started, so they "made an office" for me in a spare storage room off of a tiny hallway that connected the finishing cellars with the filter room and hop storage room.
It was so out of the way that over a year into the job there were still people who had no idea how to find my office.
Granted there were no windows, and most of the day, the hop centrifuge and filter pumps meant I was immersed in loud droning noise...but until I started working from home in the pandemic, it was the best office I ever had.
Is that Neo's office?
They were the 3/4 height walls sans sneeze guard.
Whoa a personal cubicle? What are you, a CEO?
My last office job was QA at a game studio. They kept our whole team in a stuffy windowless room full of partitions. Three screens took up the one desk that was only a bit wider than your chair.
When feeding time happened you could hear everyone's lips smacking.
I would have killed for a cubicle like this.
The devs out in the civilized part of the office had open plan, but they had L desks and 4-6 screens. Some had mini fridges and drawers.
I played Phantasmagoria 2 and knew it was supposed to take place in a brutally oppressive corporate hellscape, but each characters cubicle seemed expansive and cozy.