Cubicles were reviled by the previous generations, but now we get open office plans where you don’t have nearly so much space or privacy. Cubicles would be an upgrade.
Cubicles are terrible until your office gets converted into an open concept, and then they seem amazing. Home office is best though.
Home Office can also really suck if you don’t have a dedicated workspace at home. Spending 10-12 hours at the same place with no reason to leave the home for days can really fuck with your emotional state.
I am not a social butterfly. Work was where I did my 10 minutes of socialising per day. Now that I’m fully WFH I can feel my conversational skills just freefalling…
WFH is great if you have a partner or kids, but as a single person it genuinely is a terrible way to function
Offices with actual closable doors are kinda nice
I feel this. I used to work in a 1970s era courthouse building. Dimly lit and filled with archive boxes. Winding deadend corridors. My cubicle was undeniably my private workspace. Only office environment I kinda miss.
The quad-plex half-cubicle shared workspace that office moved to was garbage. A leading factor in my eventual departure actually. Work environment means a lot. Nothing beats remote work though.
I used to work in an underground converted corridor surrounded by machines. Extremely hot under load, no windows, and you’d have to drink water constantly in summer to maintain an even temp. It was a great place to think and work. Internet was severely limited to LAN, so you’d have no distractions.
Whilst I don’t miss the noxious environment I do miss the clarity of thought and the sheer productivity
I started my career in a cubicle. Not gonna lie, it was pretty awesome! Everybody wheeled around on their chairs so you didn’t accidentally look over the wall Lumberg style.
Open concept benefits nobody but the no talent assclowns!
I do hope that Japan’s work ethic has improved…
Not much.
But changes are slowly being made. While some companies continue to blatantly abuse employees, others are actually trialing four-day work weeks.
People actually have cubicles like that, with decoration and everything? I’m a typical office worker in Brazil and have never seen something like that.
Yes. I was so creeped out by the giant beige maze of cubes further than my eye could see at one place I interviewed at that I didn’t take it. Now here I am 10 years later at a place where I’m… in a beige cube. And I like it. Open floor plans or even half-cubes are hell for my concentration.
I have 100% worked in a cubical exactly like that.
One of the most soul crushing times of my life for sure.
I wish I had a cubicle like that… I’ve always had to work in an open-plan bullpen with no privacy
Yes, my father did. He had the same one for many years at one place (nearly a decade, until he was laid off) then another for many, many years (nearly two decades, until he retired)
I was able to visit the first job as a child and I loved it. It was incredibly cozy. It wasn’t decorated with past achievements of what he once was, but some awards and certificates he may have earned in his current life to celebrate his growth. A lot of personalization like family photos, silly pictures, memes (they had memes printed out on paper many decades ago, too!), snacks, projects he was working on, a LOT of computer parts (he worked at a major computer company), a couple nice comfy desk chairs
Other people had different tastes of course. If you’ve ever been to college where people live in dorms, it’s almost the same feeling. Some are bare and kept to the absolute essentials. Others were absolutely plastered with personal effects
The company he worked for obviously allowed that freedom and I can’t say the same for everywhere, especially if cubicles are shared spaces with an alternate shift
Those are some very good nostalgic memories for me so I wanted to share, thanks for giving me an opportunity
I have. It was about double the size of those ones, but pretty much everyone who worked in the contact centers we serviced had something like those shown or worse
It used to be a lot more common in the 80s and 90s but still exists
I hot desk. Nothing but blank walls you can look over for me. Fuck work 2.0
Peaked in obedience school…
The higher you rise, the taller the fall.
