Comments on: Cublicles, Groupthink, and Who Really Cares? http://www.businesspundit.com/cublicles-groupthink-and-who-really-cares/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.businesspundit.com/cublicles-groupthink-and-who-really-cares/comment-page-1/#comment-779 Anonymous Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:25:38 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2629#comment-779 To suggest that we can't think for ourselves without being locked away from each other is insulting - thanks for calling B-S on this psycho-mumbo-jumbo Rob To suggest that we can’t think for ourselves without being locked away from each other is insulting – thanks for calling B-S on this psycho-mumbo-jumbo Rob

]]> By: SportsLizard http://www.businesspundit.com/cublicles-groupthink-and-who-really-cares/comment-page-1/#comment-778 SportsLizard Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:49:06 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2629#comment-778 I think the way you set up your office says a lot about the company you are. Cubicles to me means a strict heirarchy - managers in offices, non-managers in cubes. Whereas open office areas have the feel of equality, no one is "better" than anyone else and everyone's ideas and work are equally important to the success of the team. Personally, I never like drawing lines between people because of their "status" within the company. I think the way you set up your office says a lot about the company you are. Cubicles to me means a strict heirarchy – managers in offices, non-managers in cubes. Whereas open office areas have the feel of equality, no one is “better” than anyone else and everyone’s ideas and work are equally important to the success of the team. Personally, I never like drawing lines between people because of their “status” within the company.

]]> By: Diane Ensey http://www.businesspundit.com/cublicles-groupthink-and-who-really-cares/comment-page-1/#comment-777 Diane Ensey Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:26:51 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2629#comment-777 Having worked for a business that had to decide between setting up cubicles or building office space, there is both an economic and a power side to the argument. Economically, it is cheaper to set up cubes. If you need to rearrange, cubes make it possible and if you go out of business you can sell the partitions. Power-wise, I was surprised that upper-management almost wholly believed that non managers "deserved" to be in cubicles. Their positions didn't deserve an office. Having worked for a business that had to decide between setting up cubicles or building office space, there is both an economic and a power side to the argument.

Economically, it is cheaper to set up cubes. If you need to rearrange, cubes make it possible and if you go out of business you can sell the partitions.

Power-wise, I was surprised that upper-management almost wholly believed that non managers “deserved” to be in cubicles. Their positions didn’t deserve an office.

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