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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This goes beyond period products to any private actions a person wishes to keep private: medications come to mind. The open floor concept is just bad for privacy all around. If a workplace wants to organize themselves like this, for ease of team work and camaraderie, for example, then they need to provide additional spaces where people can go to relax, be by themselves, etc. Not just bathrooms spaces!
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I'm the teacher who posted above that I think the argument that open-concept offices are misogynistic because of tampons is in itself misogynistic.  That doesn't mean I think they're a good idea.  I don't have specific experience with open-concept office plans, but I absolutely can see how, for the portion of my job that doesn't require teenagers in the room, I am more efficient after school when I can be alone in my classroom, than when there are kids and colleagues in the building coming in and out.  As someone who had very private conversations with my adoption social worker in a bathroom, I can absolutely understand how an office with a door would be a great thing.  I just think that offices and doors are good for both men and women.  [/quote]

The answer is privacy — online ans IRL — is dead.

Work from home is also terrible because people are losing touch with the human side of being human.

Open concept is terrible for concentration until you learn out to block things out. Something earlier generations did better at.

Closed, private offices were rife with sexual harassment issues and worse.

I guess it is back to the fields for everyone![/quote]

Hybrid is win-win and reasonable because it keeps people engaged in person but also gives them WFH focus time to knock out solo tasks, and work life balance.

Hybrid is the reasonable and effective solution. But the people in charge right now are not interested in reasonable and effective.[/quote]

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