Not to mention many women have brought up discomfort issues related to being visible at all times—which sounds 10,000% justified.
This is an entirely new negative aspect of open plan offices to me. As a man I never thought about this, but I could see how it could be uncomfortable for women.
Seems to go against the stated goals of achieving a more balanced workforce
My employment contract didn't include any provision for being non-visible during working hours.
How is a workforce supposed to be cohesive and collaborative if half of it doesn't know when it's allowed to look at the other half?
Perhaps in the future both men and women will wear burqas to the office. But then we'll all have to agree one one 'non-intimidating' colour.
I'm roughly 20x as productive when I work from home.
Also, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14962663
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