Leslie Loftis

Jul 13, 2018

1 min read

…roductivity per unit time between individual offices, small-team rooms, cubicles, and open offices. They wanted to find the least productive environment where people could still get billable work done. (Remember, they were being paid on these contracts by the staff-hour.) They purportedly found that people could get work done in open offices, but the amount of time neede…

A (possibly apocryphal) history lesson.
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Priceless. Simply priceless.

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Leslie Loftis

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Teacher of life admin and curator of commentary. Occasional writer.

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