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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