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Do I have your attention? I'll come clean — I actually don't have very strong feelings about open office floor plans, but with so many people [waxing hyperbolic about them](https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3), I felt that it was time someone weighed in with a contrarian point and matching hyperbole. DHH's article above essentially reduces the decision of having an open office to the idea that they look good to managers signing leases who will inevitably use the office as a backdrop for media interviews. These managers—so the thinking goes—don't care what impact an open offic has on employees' day-to-day lives because managers need not directly live with the decision. What with their corner offices and travel-heavy schedules. This argument is highly reductive and doesn't honestly portray the multitude of reasons that companies may choose to have open offices. I think I understand one of those reasons.
Do I have your attention? I'll come clean — I actually don't have very strong feelings about open office floor plans, but with so many people [waxing hyperbolic about them](https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-open-plan-office-is-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-idea-42bd9cd294e3), I felt that it was time someone weighed in with a contrarian point and matching hyperbole. DHH's article above essentially reduces the decision of having an open office to the idea that they look good to managers signing leases who will inevitably use the office as a backdrop for media interviews. These managers—so the thinking goes—don't care what impact an open office has on employees' day-to-day lives because managers need not directly live with the decision. What with their corner offices and travel-heavy schedules. This argument is highly reductive and doesn't honestly portray the multitude of reasons that companies may choose to have open offices. I think I understand one of those reasons.
Disdain for open offices is becoming technocrats' newest and laziest trope. A lot of digital ink has been spilt cataloguing the ways in which they'll be the demise of modern work. And a lot of digital ink has been split torturing this ink-spilling expression for the digital age. Let's not dwell on that; let's talk open-office floor plans.