In the late 1990s, I visited one of my friends in the United Kingdom and they showed me around their workplace. The place that they worked at was an electricity board company. The workplace from the outside looked like this: http://i50.tinypic.com/34xq90x.png
I have also done a layout map of the workplace which isn’t 100% accurate, as my memory escapes me, but it should give you an idea of what the layout of the place looked like.
What the problem with it? It looks like any number of places I’ve worked in light industrial areas (which, frankly, is my preference, compared to all the hassles of working downtown).
Well, from the outside it seems like kind of a dump, but that’s not a dealbreaker. But they really ought to fix those boarded-up windows, for one thing.
The thing I can’t get over is that the TV in the fun room is facing the wall. What kind of SOB boss does something like that? “Have your ping pong table, have your couch… but just try to watch TV!! Muh-hahahahaha!”
Worked at a number of places like that, both as an office drone and as light industrial worker. Whether or not the place is a living hell depends not on the facility but on the management and people working there.
I’ve spent most of my life working in industrial areas, but they were always fairly safe. So I’d want to know how safe it was, but otherwise I’d work in such a setting.
QFT. The most luxurious corner office won’t make you happy if you hate your job and your co-workers. A simple chair and a table in the middle of a room full of the same can be a place you enjoy coming to in the morning, with the right people and work you enjoy.
The open office floor plan is becoming quite popular. I know it’s a turn off for some people, but I could handle it. The outside of that building is not the prettiest, but I’ve seen worse.
It’s the other way around for me, sorta. It looks junky, but at the same time familiar and cozy. I remember watching Transformers 3, when the main dude starts working in financial in a giant building like the World Financial Centre and I couldn’t get over how big and impersonal it is!
I would try very hard not to work anyplace with a shared desk. That’s awful. I’d have to really really really need a job and I’d be looking all the time for something better.
However, everyone’s opinions on things are of course, different.
It’s the other way around for me, sorta. It looks junky, but at the same time familiar and cozy. I remember watching Transformers 3, when the main dude starts working in financial in a giant building like the World Financial Centre and I couldn’t get over how big and impersonal it is!
