“Workspace design is about control and surveillance, not productivity or employee wellbeing”
Agree
- Open plans maximize visibility and monitoring
- Discomfort keeps workers from settling in
- Collaboration rhetoric masks trust deficit
- Architecture reflects power hierarchies always
Disagree
- Evidence supports collaboration benefits genuinely
- Cost efficiency serves everyone's interests
- Paranoia reads malice into practical decisions
- Remote work proves companies value outcomes
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