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From: jmg@dolphy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Cubicles ... Working At HOME!
Message-ID: <171@dolphy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 88 20:32:32 GMT
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Posted: Sat Jan 23 15:32:32 1988

The thing about cubicles isn't simply noise, etc., but that an
office represents respect from company and peers, and helps
self-confidence.  Respect and self-confidence will usually lead
to better work.  (These things are even codified in the civil
service, where depending on rank one receives an office, than
a wooden desk, then a wooden trash can, and finally, carpeting.
There is a silliness in it).

I work at home as much as possible, am far more productive there, and
control the many facets of my life.  Computers, so long as you don't
have to keep resetting them, make this kind of work possible. If
only management would trust its employees, employees enjoy their
work (learn from it, grow...), and return that trust.