With each successive job move, my office setting seems to have gotten worse & worse. I started out w my own individual office in a highrise tower, with a panoramic view of the city & river. Now I’ve hit a new low w an open floorplan w low desk partitions that you can look over at the adjacent drones, while seated. All our peer companies seem to have gone the same way. The noise distractions are terrible.
At least I have my own desk (be thankful for small mercies). At a former job posting, the company brought in a “efficiency expert” consultant who noted that on a given day, 20% of the staff (on average) were out of the office. So they did a complete design and took out 20% of the desks and made us “hot desk”. Even the senior mgrs had to hot desk. At the end of each day, we had to clear the desk completely. What a way to treat your expensive, creative staff…