12/07/2023

The Root of Over-meeting Culture

It's also known as 'the Great Hybrid Productivity Freakout'

Maybe you saw it, too — a piece from the New York Times wondering “Can Instagrammable Office Design Lure Young Workers Back?”

I shared this post to my own Instagram stories with a simple “lol.”

Apart from the fact that this office is straight out of the 2014 “cool start-up” playbook, it really does feel like most companies will do anything and everything to avoid 1) paying their employees more; 2) doing the hard work of examining the actual utility of their offices; or 3) actually listening to their employees about what they want and need, because the answer is very rarely "an office I want to photograph." (Also, as someone who used to go into an “Instagrammable” office every day, I can tell you that they are rarely cozy or conducive to collaboration).

Please select this link to read the complete article from Culture Study.