Subj : Re: Stage 4 COVID
To   : niter3
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Dec 20 2024 10:00 am

-=> niter3 wrote to Dr. What <=-

 DW> At the previous company I worked for, they renovated all the cubes to be
 DW> half-height walls.  So less privacy, more interruptions/distractions.
 DW> And then Management wondered why there was lower productivity.

 ni> Stories like this just piss me off. :) Dumb ass people.

I recall a discussion when my company (headquartered in San Francisco)
underwent a refit of their office spaces by the company that had
acquired them a year back. Everyone's cubes (not overly generous
before) shrunk significantly.

When asked about it, the head of real estate explained that because real
estate was so much more expensive, that employees would need to make do
with smaller spaces, and should be flattered that they were "allowed" to
stay in San Francisco at all!

That got rocketed up to the head of our division, who went to the head
of the real estate division, who called the guy, while still in the
meeting with us, to chew him out. The only thing that moves quickly in
corporate America is bad news.




 
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