On: Is the open office layout dead?

[mc32]

Cubicles were maligned as passé ("cubicle farms") and staid so that managers and facilities could present open office spaces as au courant, forward and entrepreneurial so that in turn they could save in area per employee expenses.

If they can call cubicles "farms" (echoing sharecropping, drudgery), then we could just as easily and aptly call open office layouts "sardine cans" with all the earned baggage that comes with.

[sogen → mc32]

Some ideas:

"Open cans"

"Sweat farms"

"Sweat cans"

"Headphones farms"

[quantumhobbit → sogen]

I'm fond of "sneeze distribution center"

[sogen → quantumhobbit]

Ah, "cold distribution center" too

[gruturo → sogen]

Chicken farms. Don't forget to cluck regularly.

[sogen → gruturo]

Better: I'll use "chicken cage" from now on! Thanks for the idea lol

[jnwatson → sogen]

The traditional "bullpen" works well.

[mc32 → jnwatson]

Not too bad, need to trend that label in order to expose these bull pens for what they are.