alt Hacker NewsDoors? All I’ve ever known were cubicles and open office plans. What world is this where offices have doors?
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wiseowise • today at 5:18 PM
Post WW2 times. The dude was born in 1915, this quote is just a copium for romantics.
Doors? All I’ve ever known were cubicles and open office plans. What world is this where offices have doors?
Post WW2 times. The dude was born in 1915, this quote is just a copium for romantics.
I had an office with a door multiple times in my (early) career. An open office door is a universe away from sitting in an open office. Even when everyone has their doors open, a true office setup allows for plenty of focus.
On top of that "closed"/"open" is a false dichotomy, since you can trivially change the state of your office. Have a hard problem that needs to be solved by the end of the day? You can close your door and have absolute focus. After that task is solved, you can just open that office again.
Real offices also entirely change the tradeoffs for remote/in office. A true office feels like your room. It's considered a private space. I knew people that would bring in their own lamps (and keep the florescent lights off), bring in rugs, hang art from the walls, have tea setups, a bookshelf filled with reference material etc.