You guys should try to get private offices, they are great
This. Elimination of pet peeves is as easy as closing the door.
Had one. Company went to an open floor plan for basically everyone to improve interaction and collaboration. It's dumb.
Thank God every day that I'm staff level. All the commoners have open office. So nice to close the door and kick up the Flip 4.
Uh, you're smarter than this. I'm "staff" level, but this was just one of those ridiculous schemes for a company to spend millions to renovate the floors, add loungy areas, and think they're getting everyone (no matter the level) to not recluse and be more teamworky and inviting to convo/collaboration.
Now people try hilariously bad ways to make their spots closed in w/ the tall dry erase boards, filing cabinets, etc., though.
And I just work from home more often than not now, so it kind of did the opposite for me.