On: Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan

[mathattack]

I'm ok with an open office, but my job is to be interupted. It's less good for deep thinking jobs, or heavy phone call jobs. Our engineers don't seem to mind though, maybe they just plug in their headsets?

Joel Spolsky wrote about this [1] though his main citation is experience at Microsoft.

I do have to admit Open Floors are a shift for a company focused on secrecy.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/12/29/the-new-fog-creek-...

[pilsetnieks → mathattack]

> Our engineers don't seem to mind though

Eventually you just seem to attract the people who can tolerate such conditions, or who are happy to keep up the pretense.