Worked at a government contractor where HR convinced management to remove all cubicle walls, and most of the inner physical walls, “to promote collaboration and synthesis”. The company spent a lot of money to essentially just gut the building. Only top management had completely closed offices, and of course HR kept their offices too…
After that, the amount of noise surrounding you made it difficult to work. I was only allowed to have one small bookcase, forcing me to take most of my research material home and making it much harder to do my job. It was a circus.
A few months later we had one of our regular government audits. The government did not like our open layout – most of our projects were classified, and it felt that people who were not cleared now had access to classified information. So it paused those contracts and threatened to cancel them…
Management spent a bunch of money reconstructing exactly the office interior we had before. HR found a scapegoat to censure… that person still got a promotion at the end of the year anyway…
I have a friend who has been working free range for years. He can do his job anywhere he can get on the internet, so he travels all over the country, with a few trips overseas. He often gets to house or dog sit for weeks and if he can’t find that, he stays in B&Bs.
ThreeDogDad Premium Member 4 days ago
“However, in retrospect, we should have ordered port-a-potties.”
danjw2 4 days ago
I couldn’t do this. Too chicken
MuddyUSA Premium Member 4 days ago
Funny…..
Doug K 4 days ago
Free range? Okay … as long as they stay on the other side of the fence.
edmund_graham 4 days ago
Where is this farm that it has mobile phone coverage and wi-fi that good?
mpolo11 Premium Member 4 days ago
All you need to do is carry a clipboard.
ferddo 4 days ago
Worked at a government contractor where HR convinced management to remove all cubicle walls, and most of the inner physical walls, “to promote collaboration and synthesis”. The company spent a lot of money to essentially just gut the building. Only top management had completely closed offices, and of course HR kept their offices too…
After that, the amount of noise surrounding you made it difficult to work. I was only allowed to have one small bookcase, forcing me to take most of my research material home and making it much harder to do my job. It was a circus.
A few months later we had one of our regular government audits. The government did not like our open layout – most of our projects were classified, and it felt that people who were not cleared now had access to classified information. So it paused those contracts and threatened to cancel them…
Management spent a bunch of money reconstructing exactly the office interior we had before. HR found a scapegoat to censure… that person still got a promotion at the end of the year anyway…
sincavage05 4 days ago
Just waiting for them to copulate and repopulate.
gopher gofer 4 days ago
they’re also now working for chicken feed…
cknoblo Premium Member 4 days ago
I have a friend who has been working free range for years. He can do his job anywhere he can get on the internet, so he travels all over the country, with a few trips overseas. He often gets to house or dog sit for weeks and if he can’t find that, he stays in B&Bs.