Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace
We get it, HN is majority introvert, and really likes logical optimization using data.<p>But some things aren't easily measurable. Is it a coincidence that companies who pioneered the open office plan are also some of the most successful in the world? Show me how you'd even begin to disprove that and I'll show you a dozen confounding variables making it silly to even try. What is the true impact of an open office on a culture of collaborative interaction? And what's the impact of that type of interaction on success? Hard to measure.<p>Sometimes we look at the things we can easily make into numbers and assume they describe the whole truth. Not always so.<p>"The most important things are unmeasurable." —W. Edwards Deming