I love Apple Park; it’s stunning and refreshing. However, the open floor plan and shared offices are the #1 contributor to lowering my productivity. I often find myself hiding out in conference rooms or working from home whenever possible in order to actually get shit done. Tweet added by Sommer Panage @Sommer

Sommer Panage

4 years

I love Apple Park; it’s stunning and refreshing. However, the open floor plan and shared offices are the #1 contributor to lowering my productivity. I often find myself hiding out in conference rooms or working from home whenever possible in order to actually get shit done.

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Mert Erdir

@merterdir

4 years

@Sommer Are the people “running into glass all the time” rumours true? I need to know.

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Sommer Panage

@Sommer

4 years

@merterdir I heard it happened in the early days. Now it’s just a few birds.

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glompix

@glompix

4 years

@Sommer the heat is what kills me there. but cafe macs pizza is great at least omg i didn’t realize it was you sommer when i first saw the tweet! hope things are going well; we miss you. :D

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Sommer Panage

@Sommer

4 years

@glompix Awwwww miss you all!!! 🤗 those were the days :-)

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Dave Gillaspy

@davegillaspy

4 years

@Sommer So you really don’t “love” Apple Park. It’s flawed and counter-productive

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Sommer Panage

@Sommer

4 years

@davegillaspy Nope. I love it. The nature. The pond. The food. The natural light. So much to love. And it’s flawed. I can love flawed things. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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RIC BURTON IS STREAMING PRIVATELY ON X 🎥👱🏼‍♂🤳

@ricburton

4 years

@Sommer

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Brian ([email protected])

@bgannin

4 years

@Sommer Shockingly other open office plans are much worse. The slice + pod aspect helps reduce the obnoxiousness.

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stu ◡̈

@sbgriffi

4 years

@Sommer 🥺💔

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Ahmed

@ahmd3ssam

4 years

@Sommer IL campus best feature is doors :D, I am grateful for my tiny windowless room.

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ

@migueldeicaza

4 years

@Sommer Interesting - so Microsoft is not alone on open offices.

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Zac Bowling 🥑

@zbowling

4 years

@Sommer Some of my friends are remaining at the old campus and fighting the move because of that

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Mark Noonan

@marktnoonan

4 years

@Sommer I love the option of an open area where many people can work near each other, but ALSO the option of a private area where you can be isolated and think something through. I don't hate open plan, but I'm not crazy about doing it all day every day

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Felix Krause

@KrauseFx

4 years

@Sommer But somebody randomly tapping on your shoulder while you have your headphones on and are in the flow is great collaboration that wouldn’t be possible otherwise

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Ken Kocienda

@kocienda

4 years

@Sommer Design is how it works.

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Dawei

@1realdawei

4 years

@Sommer Tough place to be productive but the pizza...oh the glorious pizza.

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Juanjo Ramos

@JuanjoRamos82

4 years

@Sommer This reminds me to a recurrent conversation we used to have in my previous London office: - Hey, I haven’t seen you in a week - Yeah, I had a ton of work to do so I worked from home

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Addictive Colors

@AddictiveColors

4 years

@Sommer At least as a manager now, although you do not hire many remote workers, you can those who report to you work from home / remote more

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Jeffrey L Odell

@JeffreyLOdell

4 years

@Sommer So glad to read this post. I've been in software for 40+ years, and when I voice this opinion people often accused me of just being "old school".

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