I really dont understand why people on this thread think building out work space is hard.

My old company we decided to bring our call center in house. The guy in charge with Facilities guy literally drove to a few places, got some quotes. I was on approval team.

He showed us, we approved, he pretty much had 30 cubes up and running in two weeks. You do realized those seats people sat pre-covid are still there? My old firm gave up a floor and guess what it is still empty. They could just release it.

My old town in 1990s had a shortage of office buildings. Macys bought A&S dept store from Bankruptcy and lease on the A&S just stopped near my house. Macy's did not want it as a store already close by. They converted converted it to an office building in a few weeks. All finished space with bathrooms, was a back office so mainly cubes.

Companies are now in the cloud so no need data centers. Companies got rid of gyms and cafeterias. It is just wif and cubes and desks.

My office hasn’t released anything about RTO yet, and I assume it is based on the fact that there isn’t space for everyone. They also haven’t polled us to see if we are quitting, so I don’t even understand how they would make a plan. I guess they have to assume we are all coming in and they will have to acquire more space and docking stations. Haven’t a clue where that would be.

No one plans on quitting but wonder where the money is coming from to find office spaces for RTO employees? There's a false assuming one will automatically quit. No they just want to know where to report.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Double and triple up people in offices. Tear down cubes and fit more open desks. Privacy is overrated.

What kind of job do you do? Does it require any focus or marginally deep thought?

I mindlessly fill McDonald’s coffee hours but somehow get paid 200k a year.

So you aren’t a Fed

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Double and triple up people in offices. Tear down cubes and fit more open desks. Privacy is overrated.

What kind of job do you do? Does it require any focus or marginally deep thought?

I mindlessly fill McDonald’s coffee hours but somehow get paid 200k a year.

Anonymous wrote:All I’m saying is - please do away with open floor bullshiat layouts. Go back to taller regular cube walls that seat one individual.

LOL. That ship has sailed. Have you read the rest of this thread?
Yes it's proven that open office is BS and people get sick and you can hear a damn thing because everyone is in a separate meeting (inevitably with someone not in that office because guess what, there are lots of offices in different cities all over the world). It's a cluster. And don't get me started on the food smells.

Anonymous wrote:Double and triple up people in offices. Tear down cubes and fit more open desks. Privacy is overrated.

What kind of job do you do? Does it require any focus or marginally deep thought?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Double and triple up people in offices. Tear down cubes and fit more open desks. Privacy is overrated.

My agency is considering leasing another floor in our building and filling it with cubes in the event of RTO, just because of the concern over DOGE. Who knows where the funds for that will be taken from?

Mine recently downsized from three floors to one to save $3 million a year. (This is for just the small portion of the workforce based in DC HQ.)

All I’m saying is - please do away with open floor bullshiat layouts. Go back to taller regular cube walls that seat one individual.

Anonymous wrote:Double and triple up people in offices. Tear down cubes and fit more open desks. Privacy is overrated.

My agency is considering leasing another floor in our building and filling it with cubes in the event of RTO, just because of the concern over DOGE. Who knows where the funds for that will be taken from?

Anonymous wrote:Double and triple up people in offices. Tear down cubes and fit more open desks. Privacy is overrated.

Where’s the demo budget coming from? I thought Republicans were going to cut spending?

Anonymous wrote:Double and triple up people in offices. Tear down cubes and fit more open desks. Privacy is overrated.

Some places have done that and people have to share desks. Makes it hard when you are on calls all day.

Double and triple up people in offices. Tear down cubes and fit more open desks. Privacy is overrated.

I thought DOGE was going to fire enough people such that space problems would no longer exist.

Not to mention just because you know this information doesn’t mean you have access to funding to do any of those things in the govt. my office doesn’t have space and we don’t have enough docking stations or wifi. So, if we all had to come back at once, aside from not having enough desks or chairs, there would be no way everyone could use their computers at the same time. Those are likely not impossible issues to address but in the govt they are going to take a minute.