I've seen executives agree to such a plan and then commandeer a conference room for months at a time because they're always on an "important call" or something else.
Right? The arguments I have is that there a “meeting rooms” for conversations, to which I say: there are hundreds of employees and 5 such rooms. If they’re for conversation they should be limited to maybe 30 minute stints, and cannot be functionally boomed for longer.
Of course again the purpose is to denigrate the employees who actually do work, rather than to be a better work environment.
And as other people have pointed out: the turn the office into an experiment in the spread of contagious diseases
"I've seen executives agree to such a plan and then commandeer a conference room for months at a time because they're always on an "important call" or something else."
That was apparently rampant when TBWA Chiat/Day tried a radical open plan office redesign.
