Having volunteered to help out boss the previous night (because she was looking desperate), we spent three hours moving little cut-out colour-coded spraymounted paper furniture around an A3 plan. It took a small fraction of that time to work out that the fundamental issue is, they're trying to get too many people into the space. (Although it would help if you could move the pesky pillars that hold up the ceilings!) Our team will be crammed into approximately half the floor space we have currently, and there's no room for expansion. Nowhere to put the contractors that the web and VLE teams have needed in the last year.
Coats are meant to be put in central coat cupboards. I bet my boss that they'd end up slung over chairs because people want them near their desks, but she wasn't disagreeing.
No-one who codes or edits texts wants to be near Marketing and Registry, who are always on the phone. Our current environment is pretty quiet and I'm pretty sure productivity will take a dive all round. But, 'only fight the battles you can win', and this battle is long over. We're definitely moving, so we can only make the best of it. I suspect that there will be problems for several months, then there will be another shake-up and move-round to accommodate the inevitable new joiners.
When you were there, how much did noise carry? Also, are those pillars round or square, and what are they made of?
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Date: 2005-04-17 09:25 am (UTC)Having volunteered to help out boss the previous night (because she was looking desperate), we spent three hours moving little cut-out colour-coded spraymounted paper furniture around an A3 plan. It took a small fraction of that time to work out that the fundamental issue is, they're trying to get too many people into the space. (Although it would help if you could move the pesky pillars that hold up the ceilings!) Our team will be crammed into approximately half the floor space we have currently, and there's no room for expansion. Nowhere to put the contractors that the web and VLE teams have needed in the last year.
Coats are meant to be put in central coat cupboards. I bet my boss that they'd end up slung over chairs because people want them near their desks, but she wasn't disagreeing.
No-one who codes or edits texts wants to be near Marketing and Registry, who are always on the phone. Our current environment is pretty quiet and I'm pretty sure productivity will take a dive all round. But, 'only fight the battles you can win', and this battle is long over. We're definitely moving, so we can only make the best of it. I suspect that there will be problems for several months, then there will be another shake-up and move-round to accommodate the inevitable new joiners.
When you were there, how much did noise carry? Also, are those pillars round or square, and what are they made of?