![]() In these innovative new spaces, head honchos sat directly among the entry-level grunts, fostering an increased sense of possibility and presumably cutting through the hierarchy that long had been blamed for stifling creativity and the free flow of ideas.īut did we get it completely wrong? A Gen-X writer for The New Yorker opines on “The Open-Office Trap,” and The Washington Post argues that workplaces actually need more walls, not fewer, in a piece about how “Google got it wrong” and how the open office trend is destroying the workplace. ![]() Gone were the dreaded cubicle partitions that came with the stereotypically negative notion of being a cog in the wheel or a corporate drone. Beginning in the late ’90s with the first startup boom, companies have tried setting themselves apart as cooler, hipper, friendlier and more down-to-earth than their corporate counterparts by implementing more casual, open-air layouts in their offices.
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