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[...] In instituting these four forms of privacy—privacy within team boundaries, privacy limits on employee data, privacy in decision-making, and privacy about time—the organizations Bernstein studied refused the temptation to observe (or try to observe) everything. That refusal did not cost them profits or effectiveness. Instead, respect for privacy enhanced their success.
[...] That suggests that privacy's defenders should not concede that total surveillance is safest (or most efficient or most profitable), before going on to say that it would be creepy to have to fly naked. That's important in a society where monitoring technology is ever cheaper and ever more powerful, and the notion is spreading that surveillance, and the data it generates, can solve any problem. Privacy, so often depicted as the enemy of efficiency in public life, can be its friend.
[Discussion]: Privacy Makes Workers More Productive
[Source]: Want People to Behave Better? Give Them More Privacy
[Related]: Duet Ex Machina
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:26PM
Some people cannot concentrate with distractions.
I don't know what kind of idiot started that "open room no cubicles" fad, but I'd love to choke the living shit out of them. Fortunately, organizations who stupidly embraced that fad are starting to realize what a bad idea it is. Of course, anybody with half a brain knew from the get-go what a bad idea that was, but managers who make those decisions are mean-spirited dickheads who are always trying to find news ways to squeeze more pennies out of employees -- notably ZuckerJew, whose organization Facebook was one of the big proponents of the open-bay trend.
An open workspace works well for stock-traders, but not so well for anybody else.
It's not a matter of needing to hide so I can vape on the sly and knead my dick watching porn at work, it's a matter of being able to tune out distractions so I can get some fucking work done, and I can't get fucking work done with headphones on and a bag over my head.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday October 23 2016, @06:02AM
My former bank went from traditional counters-and-tellers to this big open ring affair. Everyone hated it, and it somehow managed to be a lot slower, too. The problem seemed to be that it was both directionless for the customers (they soon resorted to having tellers go fetch the next customer from the line) and stressful for the tellers (who were now completely exposed, in a neighborhood with considerable crime) despite being rigged up so they had no access to cash.
So, yeah. Fucking dumb fads.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.