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Mutex wrote:Well, other than the lack of daylight you get all those things with open plan too. Which is the only other option I've seen, in fact the ONLY kind of office I've worked in. Cubicles at least muffle the sound of other conversations and give people a little more privacy.
What other office layouts have you worked in? Did everyone get their own office or something?
speising wrote:this is where i work. we are two persons in there.
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Zamfir wrote:Offices for 2 to roughly 4 people, with windows on one side and a door on the other side. A corridor in between, and another row of offices on the other side of the corridor. The walls go up to the ceiling, but can typically be moved fairly easily. A meeting room for every few offices.
Two-four people in an office would be a dream, guess it takes a decent amount of floor space though. The trend in London is to pack people into ever smaller open-plan offices.
Zamfir wrote:@Chen: it means the building can't be wide. But nothing stops it from being high, long, or having multiple wings to get the desired size.
Mutex wrote:I wonder how that works. Maybe being in an open, noisy environment makes people feel less secure so they go out of their way to reduce further contact and "close up" a lot. While people in cubicles feel more secure and are more willing to initiate contact with other people.
Mutex wrote:It's unfortunate that pretty much the most logical shape of a building to maximise windows is the swastika.
I hope no fascist group ever uses the triangle as their symbol. All our bridges would collapse.
Mutex wrote:speising wrote:this is where i work. we are two persons in there.
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Are you both on the desk visible in that pic, or is there another desk on the other side of the room?
Two-four people in an office would be a dream, guess it takes a decent amount of floor space though. The trend in London is to pack people into ever smaller open-plan offices.
Zamfir wrote:Lack of light. Noise from too many people in one room. Difficult to have sensitive conversations. Often impossible to regulate the temperature to your own preference. Usually goes together with small space, though of course you can cram too many people in an office as well. The creepy feeling that someone could be watching over your shoulder, if the space is designed that the walkway is directly behind your back.
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And it's not just a middle finger from management - offices are way more expensive.
speising wrote:Mutex wrote:speising wrote:this is where i work. we are two persons in there.
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Are you both on the desk visible in that pic, or is there another desk on the other side of the room?
Two-four people in an office would be a dream, guess it takes a decent amount of floor space though. The trend in London is to pack people into ever smaller open-plan offices.
there's another desk on the left, you can see his notebook. (and, theoretically, a desk opposite mine for a third person).
of course, i'm not in the US, but you'd think space is more sparse in Old Europe.
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"I said he'd be a great prime minister. He's saying good things about me as president. He thinks I'm doing a great job. I am doing a great job, just in case you haven't noticed, but I do think Boris Johnson would be a great prime minister."
A London Underground station has been temporarily named after England's football manager.
Southgate Tube station was rebranded Gareth Southgate station from Monday morning for 48 hours, after the squad finished fourth in the World Cup. It was England's best result since 1990 when they also lost in the semi-final.
"We're delighted to be able to show our appreciation to Gareth and the team by renaming the station in his honour," Transport for London said.
The Piccadilly Line station, in Enfield, north London, will display the manager's name on its signs until the end of Tuesday.
One local resident said the temporary signage was a "fantastic" way to say thank you to the England manager.
Speaking at the station, she said: "He gets on with the job and he achieved those amazing results and lifted the whole nation's spirits. And this is a tribute to him in the very same manner - quiet, unassuming."
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I read "drains" as "drinks" and was very confused.
Oh, That is funny.Mutex wrote: Then a lady with a trace of irritation in her voice pointed out we were filling up the marina
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At the heart of the European Commission’s case was the question of whether Google had abused its power ... While Google gives Android away to handset makers, those companies must effectively pre-install 11 Google apps on their devices, giving Google’s products far greater reach and more users to click on its ads.
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In another remedy, European officials ordered that Google must allow handset manufacturers to create their own versions of Android software, otherwise known as “forks.” Google had previously discouraged the rise of competing smartphone software based on Android by blocking manufacturers’ access to Google apps if they built devices using any alternative versions.
The case has parallels to a similarly significant action against Microsoft in the 2000s, when it was heavily penalized in Europe and the United States for using its power in the personal computer market to bundle in its own internet browser, boxing out its rivals. At the time, Google, a young upstart, was among those to complain about Microsoft’s practices.
Some Google rivals cheered Wednesday’s decision. Locking handset makers into deals with Google made it “very challenging to compete,” Gabriel Weinberg, chief executive of DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, said in an interview. “We would hope the U.S. would ultimately follow suit and take another look at this.”
Then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's staff sought to protect him from exposure to toxic formaldehyde from an office desk last year, emails show — just months before his top political aides blocked the release of a report on health dangers from the same chemical.
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