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Open concept offices - why ?

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My hypothesis: Once upon a time, most bosses stayed in their own offices in their own world, with their doors usually closed and one needed to make an appointment to get an audience. Then one day, one enlightened one decided to have an open door policy so that staff could approach them more easily. The next enlightened one decided that to promote even more interaction, there should be no offices, everyone should just sit with everyone - in the name of better collaboration & communication. This seemed to make lots of sense for certain industries like the creative ones who need to discuss a lot , and for the traders. Then someone decided that there should be no partitions, let everything be open concept. The idea caught on. And before we knew it, everyone else just copied blindly, regardless of the nature of their work.  Well, this is a good concept theoretically, until you have hardworking, high volumed colleagues who am not aware of their own volumes, until you need to focus...

Shanghai nights

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It's my first business trip overseas in a long while. So, I have lots of insights on various matters.  Movies  Rewarded myself with the famous La La Land after doing all my required pre-reading. This movie is  highly recommended if you are into dreams and all that jazz. Watching it reminds me that actually I like watching movies , just that I haven't watched such interesting, stirring ones in a while. Also, when I am watching on a plane, I don't have that nagging feeling that I'm prioritising the two-hour movie over my kids, so that felt good too.  On my return flight, I squeezed in the classic Wall Street, Mr Church (incidentally with some jazz element too), and one episode of Sex & the City. All very nice too. Recommended too if you are into  good plots , without all the special effects and lousy humour.  Facetime Tried to callback every night and every morning to FaceTime the boys.. Interestingly Cayson doesn't seem to recognise me, or perhaps the ju...