Guess it depends on your industry pharma companies are just now switching.

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Anonymous wrote:This reminds me why I'm glad to work in private industry. No stupid policies.. just get stuff done.

Private industry is going to open concept/no walls offices as well. It makes me laugh when grown adults throw fits about office space.

Uh, no. Private industry went open office years ago, and then they realized it's terrible for getting work done. The latest trend is moving back to cubes and offices. As usual, the federal government is 10 years behind on this.

You MUST work for my agency.

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me why I'm glad to work in private industry. No stupid policies.. just get stuff done.

Private industry is going to open concept/no walls offices as well. It makes me laugh when grown adults throw fits about office space.

This reminds me why I'm glad to work in private industry. No stupid policies.. just get stuff done.

someone's a special snowflake...

I don't know if this is what OP was referring to, but our agency is moving to a new building, and there is some sort of GSA rule requiring attorney offices to be smaller than they previously could be. But it isn't by grade. Personally, I don't care about the size of the office, except that if it is going to be smaller, we need some alternative space to store bankers boxes of litigation documents.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to the Pentagon and take a look at the space GS15s/O6s have.

Good? Bad?

Bad! Tiny tiny cubes/desks.

Anonymous wrote:We're renovating to go wall-less. The units that already got the renovation have their office directors out in the open, without offices, like everybody else.

Good. I'm sick of managers not being part of the team and not listening enough to their people. Our managers sit in their own "manager hallway."

We're renovating to go wall-less. The units that already got the renovation have their office directors out in the open, without offices, like everybody else.

Anonymous wrote:LMAO.

+1
Are you my coworker, who won't stop bitching about her office?

Anonymous wrote:Go to the Pentagon and take a look at the space GS15s/O6s have.

Good? Bad?

Anonymous wrote:My husband's agency recently moved buildings and there was a lot of fretting over the minimum cube space per grade issue. I do believe it was adhered to.

Yes but that was to LOWER the cube space. My office just moved too and OPM told them our cubes would be too big so they had to work to get smaller ones. We were all like wtf

15s are in cubicles at my agency.

Anonymous wrote:If you have a collective bargaining agreement or Administrative Policy Circular in your agency, it may contain such terms. It varies based on the agency.

Do collective bargaining units apply to GS-15's (usually managers)? In our agency they apply to GS-13's and below and Engineers are excluded. We also had an unwritten 'rule' that you would get your own office as a 13 (small offices - no cubes) but that went out the door when they started consolidating space. Now, you go where there is space. Period.