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谷歌错了：开放式办公室正在摧毁工作场所
Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace
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这篇《华盛顿邮报》文章批评开放式办公室的流行趋势：作者认为谷歌式的开放办公破坏了专注与协作，引用研究指出开放式办公室导致注意力分散、缺乏声音和视觉隐私，反而损害工作表现。文章多次登上 HN 首页，引发关于办公空间设计的长期讨论。
为什么经久不衰：开放式办公室至今仍是普遍现实，这篇文章及其讨论提供了反思办公设计与远程办公价值的经典视角。
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没有完美办公方案，应按公司文化定制，未来趋势是混合式与远程办公
这些反对开放办公室的文章从不提到的一点是：不可能同时为每个个人、又为整个组织设计出完美的办公室。很多人主张私人办公室，但一旦砌墙，建筑内部就失去了自然采光，而且私人办公室曾带来的等级感（高层靠窗、最高层占角落）正是开放办公受欢迎的原因之一。我期待钟摆摆回隐私一侧时会带来什么——提示：不会是私人办公室。比如基于活动类型的办公设计、更多远程办公。最重要的是根据公司文化来设计办公室，而不是照搬其他公司。
stevesearer查看英文原文
One facet that never comes up in these anti-open office articles is that it is 100% impossible to design the perfect office for you as an individual, for every other individual, all while designing an office that is perfect for the organization. Many people here advocate private offices, which are great, but as soon as you start putting up walls, you've totally restricted access to natural light in the interior of the building. Access to natural light and breaking down the hierarchy that came with private offices (exterior for high-level employees, corner for the highest) are partly responsible for creating an environment where open office are desirable alternatives. With all of condemnation for open plan office happening, I'm excited to see what the next swing of the pendulum back toward privacy will bring us. Hint: It won't be private offices. Some of the things I'm excited about in this regard are: -Activity-based working office designs -Increased working from home/telecommuting arrangements The most important part of office design is to consider your company's culture, and then develop an office that will best support it rather than jumping onto what types of designs have worked for the unique cultures of other companies.
反方观点：开放办公确实帮助一些成功公司快速协作，不能只用调查数据否定
作为一个厌恶开放办公室的远程工作者，我认为仅仅附和这类观点文章无助于讨论。「节省地产成本」和「不信任员工」这两个常见理由已成阻止深入分析的思维定式。想想扎克伯格：他是在监视员工，还是想重现哈佛宿舍那张让团队快速迭代、最终做出千亿美元 IPO 的开放式厨房餐桌？那些抱怨开放办公室的人，又做出了什么伟大的东西呢？观点文章并不令人信服。
jasode查看英文原文
As a remote worker that despises open offices, I don't believe that nodding in agreement with opinion pieces such as those by Lindsey Kaufman is helpful to the discussion about it. The 2 common cited reasons of "saves real estate costs" and "employee distrust" have become thought-stopping memes that prevents the analysis of executives who prefer working in open offices and became successful with it. I previously posted an example of Mark Zuckerberg's thinking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13374848 Look at those old photos and then listen to him speak about his new 2015 open desk in the video. Contemplate whether he built the new open office to spy on everyone or... was it to recreate and extend the "open office" kitchen table at Harvard that let the team quickly iterate on software and get to $100 billion IPO? Would Lindsey's complaints sway him? She says: >A 2013 study found that many workers in open offices are frustrated by distractions that lead to poorer work performance. Nearly half of the surveyed workers in open offices said the lack of sound privacy was a significant problem for them and more than 30 percent complained about the lack of visual privacy. Why would Mark Z care about these surveys? Of those respondents that were dissatisfied, what did those workers who require private offices build that was great? He built a multi-billion dollar company with a cramped elbow-to-elbow open office. Opinion pieces about this topic are not convincing. Concrete business performance superior to everyone else based on private offices would be convincing.
推荐《人件》一书，它系统论证了开放办公对知识工作者的危害
《人件：生产性项目与团队》对为什么开放式办公空间给知识工作者带来糟糕结果给出了非常有说服力的论证。如果你是团队负责人、经理或资深程序员，这是一本必读书，我强烈推荐。
jeremysmyth查看英文原文
"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" makes a very compelling argument on why open-plan workspaces give terrible results for knowledge workers. If you work as a team leader, manager, or senior programmer, it's absolutely a must-read. I can't recommend it more highly than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams https://blog.codinghorror.com/peopleware-revisited/ http://new.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html
声学设计被严重忽视，简单的吸音处理和隔断就能大幅改善开放办公环境
哪怕稍微注意一下声学设计，开放式或准开放式办公室也能好得多。现在员工只能靠自己戴耳机、用音乐盖过噪音。我们办公室的墙面和天花板全是光滑平面，最大化声反射；玻璃会议室起初像回声盒，根本没法谈话，只好加装吸音挂布。办公室可以借鉴「现代酒吧 vs 传统酒馆」的布局：传统酒馆的雅座有木质半隔断、大量织物、曲折的内部布局，环境音量安静得多。照这样布局的办公室技术上仍是「开放」的，但能阻止噪音传播，哪怕只装个吸音天花板也会大有不同。
pjc50查看英文原文
Even a little attention to acoustics could make the open or quasi-open office much better for workers. At the moment, you're expected to deal with this yourself by putting on headphones and overwriting the noise with music. The "modern" open-plan office in which I work is particularly bad at acoustics. The dining area has a dome, which looks nice but sounds like an echoing railway station. I avoid it because I can't make out conversations in that kind of environment. Said dining area is isolated from the rest of the office by a partial wall that does not go all the way up. All walls and ceiling surfaces are smooth and flat to maximise acoustic reflection. When we first moved in, the glass-fronted meeting rooms were echoing little boxes that were also impossible to hold conversations in, so we had to fit fabric acoustic suppressing wall hangings. Offices could do well to learn from the "modern bar vs. traditional pub" layout approach. The bar is open and loud; conversation requires either out-louding people or leaning into someone's ear. The traditional pub "snug" has wooden half-partitions into booths, lots of fabric on the seating, maybe a few wing chairs, and a twisty internal layout. The ambient volume is much quieter. An office laid out like a snug would still technically be "open" but would stop noise travelling across the office. Even just an acoustic suppressant ceiling would make a big difference.
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