What is that article picture? A bunch of 4:3 monitors, people sitting on unpadded wooden chairs, shoulder to shoulder? What kind of office hellpit is that?
After examining the magazine being passed and discovering a (frankly super creepy) website documenting, among other things, every magazine cover featuring Angelina Jolie, that is most likely a November 2008 variety office hellpit.
Open seating facilitating C o l l a b o r a t i o n, my friend. It’s the newest in a long line of corporate circle-jerk KPIs.
Quarterly losses got the shareholders on your back?
Mandate more collaborations!
Employees realizing their worth got the shareholders on your back?
Mandate more collaborations!
Feeling insecure about your authority got the shareholders on your back?
Mandate more collaborations!
The high mount of time spent collaborating on Teams/Slack got the shareholders on your back?
Mandate more collaborations!
Some other company’s Exec bragging about their greater number of collaborations got the shareholders on your back?
Mandate more collaborations!
What’s the easiest most effortless method to generate more collaborations without having to use any brain power whatsoever?
Copy what other CEOs who’ve failed have done and change nothing because you’re a lazy hack but tell yourself it’ll work perfectly because you’re a snowflake and smarter than everyone else! 🌹🌹Return to Office! 🌹🌹
When it doesn’t work, what do you do?
Blame the workers for not collaborating right! YAAAAAAAAAY!!!