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No. Nobody thinks that open offices are better for work.

They just think that the cost in productivity is less then the cost of the extra real estate required.

Your estimates of cost are totally incorrect.

When it comes to a difference of 200k vs 300k per fully loaded employee, most managers are going to doubt they are going to get 50% more work out of each employee.




I wish this were true -- it would make the argument for remote work easy.

A non-negligible number of people genuinely do seem to believe that the loss of individual productivity is offset by "team cohesion" or equivalent.


Remote work would make it closer to 0k than either, yet most managers are against it.


"Your estimates of cost are totally incorrect."

Illuminate me.




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