Open offices are popular and for good reason: they reduce cost and they have the potential to improve interaction (and eventually foster innovation and creativity). However their very design emphasizes the relationship of domination of senior managers over junior managers and employees (senior managers have closed offices, everybody else works outside), leads to performance-killing interruptions and support sexism and harassment. What is the alternative? Well, according to these ‘focus blinders‘, not co-working spaces. I personally love working in those nooks that you can find in libraries, where you can be on your own but also be with others in the same space.
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