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Martin Van Nostrand
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good catch... a few years but only the last year was mobile seating
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My company doesn’t have assigned desks...
ballen
7/18/18 7:22am
Sounds absolutely terrible. Can you just work from home?
Odysseus
7/18/18 7:24am
No. Too many meetings, which is how they justify it.
ballen
7/18/18 7:25am
What year is it? Have people not heard of Skype?
BeefNoodleCoug
7/18/18 7:59am
Design meetings are never as good via Skype.
Nathanael Greene
7/18/18 8:54am
Do tell where you work so we don’t make the same mistake.
dadofkhec
7/18/18 7:29am
Not in Utah so I doubt you guys will stumble upon it.
ballen
7/18/18 7:29am
The only company I’ve ever personally seen do this is Hudl.
Duke Silver
7/18/18 7:43am
That’s too bad. Is there an anonymous way to express your frustration?
dadofkhec
7/18/18 11:36am
my last job had this. you usually just ended up sitting in the same spot every
Martin Van Nostrand
7/18/18 7:36am
How long did you work at Goldman?
itsuptoyou
7/18/18 7:40am
good catch... a few years but only the last year was mobile seating
Martin Van Nostrand
7/18/18 7:44am
Our company just move to that for staff and seniors...being on the other end
Fdnman
7/18/18 7:46am
if those flexible work arrangements don't include working from home and tele-wor
Saxa
7/18/18 7:52am
They are audit staff/seniors...so they really are out of the office more days
Fdnman
7/18/18 8:00am
If space costs too much you are in the wrong location - move to a cheaper town
ArchbishopMitty
7/18/18 1:27pm
No duel monitors is insane.
JuicyJam
7/18/18 7:50am
Two monitors is so 10 years ago
Dzog
7/18/18 8:00am
I guess I shouldn't complain that my corner office doesn't have any windows.
slowhiteguy
7/18/18 7:55am
Sometimes upper management people just think too much.
mudpupper
7/18/18 8:15am
On the other hand...doing things the same way we have for decades doesn't
Fdnman
7/18/18 8:23am
Adapting is fine and necessary. But I see people change for the sake of
mudpupper
7/18/18 8:35am
I think that “researching” is what a lot of companies are doing.
Superman21
7/18/18 8:59am
Everyone should have the option for a private office. If you want to sit in an
ArchbishopMitty
7/18/18 4:06pm
Not to mention, where I worked before
Superman21
7/18/18 5:08pm
So we should just do things that are known to be dumb for the sake of
ArchbishopMitty
7/18/18 4:02pm
TBF, that's actually upper management not thinking *enough*.
outlier
7/18/18 8:38am
"innovation" is sometimes the opiate for the un-thinking highly positioned
ArchbishopMitty
7/18/18 1:30pm
I have only seen that for large consulting operations
bluelands
7/18/18 8:47am
We do that at my internship, but everyone ends up using the same desk
TCuz
7/18/18 9:39am
That really sucks, sounds like they are trying to cut productivity big time
ArchbishopMitty
7/18/18 1:28pm
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