What propaganda is this?
It's lovely to see Management so terribly in love with "bullpen" solutions and "teamwork-encouraging" workspaces ... lovely like watching west coast drivers on icy streets.
As for Design Psychology, this is yet another gobbledy-**** phrase thrown about by the self-declared illunimati to hint that they have a somewhat inspired Secret Inner Knowledge, a bit of information that explains why their position makes Management Sense even when it clearly lacks Common Sense.
If there is any doubt that one of the real goals here is simply to further commodatize the workforce, think again. If less is more, then you as an indivual worker having less square footage in the office, less privacy, and less actual furniture, then YES, this is MORE appealing to cost-sensitive, people-illiterate managers. (no, not ALL managers ...)
In truth, since most IT jobs are being off-shored anyway, the best thing the current North American IT workforce can do to be ready for the Next Wave in IT office environment furnishings is to beef up their burger flipping skills.
Those who may survive the continued ongoing shrinkage should simply pretend they are going back to college, forever, and try the following:
- learn to speak English with a foreign accent (fake it if you need to)
- buy an old high school desk and learn to perform your duties from within the confined space of the 3x3 footprint this edu-cubicle provides
- have a Blue Tooth headset surgically implanted in your head
- learn to live on Top Raman, saltine crackers, and week-old bread
You owe it to yourself to object LOUDLY to continued disintegration of workplace livability.
