NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES: Since tearing down all of our walls, offices, and dividers in favor of one large, open room with rows of desks, we’ve received anecdotal...
Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace.
Workplaces need more walls, not fewer.
Open offices are as bad as they seem—they reduce face-to-face time by 70%
To encourage unbounded, collective intelligence, offices may need physical boundaries.
Open-plan offices must be rethought to prevent employees losing focus, finds Haworth
Open-plan offices are "sabotaging" employees' ability to focus at work, while connectivity is leaving them "paralysed", according to research by Haworth
Remote Teams
I was recently tagged into a conversation on Twitter. The thread started with this summary of findings about open plan offices:
Roomy Events, by OpenMeet
While Roomy is now quitely operational with a growing handful of pilot spaces, before we make a grander reveal about that particular milestone we have another exciting Report from the Atmosphere to share in the meantime. Events for organizing Events planning is an essential affordance in the world of organizing,
Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics | TechCrunch
When we think about designing our dream home, we don’t think of having a thousand roommates in the same room with no doors or walls. Yet in today’s
Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics | TechCrunch
When we think about designing our dream home, we don’t think of having a thousand roommates in the same room with no doors or walls. Yet in today’s
The Open-Office Trap
A growing body of evidence suggests that the open office undermines the very things that it was designed to achieve.
‘Deskilling’: a dangerous side effect of AI use
Workers are increasingly reliant on the new technology
Developer Experience Goals for Atproto Spaces - AT Protocol
A new series nailing down the moving parts of building on Spaces
Thrilled to be sharing my latest work at #CogSci2026! Many of the spaces we move through, from kitchens to airports, were designed with specific uses in mind. How do people create such environments, and how do users figure out what they were designed for? 📃 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/hd6px_v1
Following the general release and tentative pro-plan for @roomy.space here's a transparency report & vision for our proto-company's financials. 1. Seed Money 2. The Deal - for Roomy contributors 3. Outstanding Debts - to Roomy contributors -> a replicable model for purpose-driven companies.
An equitable company
blog.roomy.spaceThe one time I visited a WeWork I sat at a table by some windows that overlooked the city. That turned out to be a big mistake because every 10 minutes a new dude would take the loudest call on his AirPods and gaze out this window with his hands on his hips in a “I’m gonna own this town” kinda way.
Chet Faliszek
Does anyone have the new groupon coupon for WeWork? I saw an ad for it on Quibi.
