The reason our corporate overlords went to open office plans is that they are much less expensive than actual offices. All the other reasons were bullshit to justify enshittification.
And that’s why I like working from home
Joke’s on me. 100% wfh, but hours of zoom meeting a week.
So they can listen to Aphex Twin at max volume with their robot ears and not frighten all the non-robots.
Sounds a lot like what Joel Spolsky was advocating for since 2003, although now it’s easier since most people already have a private office, just not in “the office”.
What a great article. Practical and poetic.
It would have been nice to have a connection made to Flow, since that’s what was being alluded to throughout, but maybe excluding Flow was deliberate in some way I’m missing?
So you can lock them in.
If I remember correctly there was a Japanese videogame studio who did that in the 80’s they locked their development team in the office. I can’t find the article any more though.
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