I don’t know. My first job was in a cubicle and it was in the middle of a large floor. There wasn’t any natural light and the cubicles spread in all directions for what felt like forever.
Like, its nice to have your personal space but it sucks to have the hours blend together because you’re in a liminal space where you can’t tell if you’re alive or dead.
Oof, that’s rough. Makes me appreciate the law here in germany that employees work stations in an office must be exposed to daylight. Cubicles like you described wouldn’t be allowed here.
Then you get the other perfect combination. Window right above your screen, facing west without any blinds or curtains. And you spend half the day with the sun in your face.
I finally got a window and I kept that fucker clear all the time (had blinds, didn’t use em). I wore a brimmed hat rather than cover up that beautiful sunshine.
There are plenty of open plan offices with no natural light either - it’s really a function of how big the floor is whether light can reach to the middle of it (without a lightwell or something)
The open floors that I’ve experienced typically have a long tables parallel to the window where everyone is crammed into, with meeting rooms towards the inside of the building.
I had a QA position at a game company and there weren’t any windows on the open dev floor, only the break room and lobby. On top of that, they kept us testers in a freezing/sweaty separate room. Crunch dinners in that cramped hell were so fragrant.
A genuine cubicle like that would be a luxury
Seriously.
Open-plan office dwellers everywhere: “Tell me more about this ‘cubicle’. Walls, you say?”
I brought this wall from home!
I don’t know. My first job was in a cubicle and it was in the middle of a large floor. There wasn’t any natural light and the cubicles spread in all directions for what felt like forever. Like, its nice to have your personal space but it sucks to have the hours blend together because you’re in a liminal space where you can’t tell if you’re alive or dead.
Oof, that’s rough. Makes me appreciate the law here in germany that employees work stations in an office must be exposed to daylight. Cubicles like you described wouldn’t be allowed here.
Then you get the other perfect combination. Window right above your screen, facing west without any blinds or curtains. And you spend half the day with the sun in your face.
I finally got a window and I kept that fucker clear all the time (had blinds, didn’t use em). I wore a brimmed hat rather than cover up that beautiful sunshine.
I would wear a sombrero all day, just because.
There are plenty of open plan offices with no natural light either - it’s really a function of how big the floor is whether light can reach to the middle of it (without a lightwell or something)
True. It all depends. That’s no better.
The open floors that I’ve experienced typically have a long tables parallel to the window where everyone is crammed into, with meeting rooms towards the inside of the building.
I had a QA position at a game company and there weren’t any windows on the open dev floor, only the break room and lobby. On top of that, they kept us testers in a freezing/sweaty separate room. Crunch dinners in that cramped hell were so fragrant.
It was interesting, but never again.
Yeah, that sounds awful too. I never hear good things about the game industry.