Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Psyched to see the rollout of the highly anticipated SWIFT work area at Deer Valley. The email and video was truely inspirational. I am sold! I look forward to the noise and distraction of the open office. I wonder if Honeywell will provide noise cancelling headphones and blinders to help mitigate noise and visual distraction. The red adult high chairs in the break area are also a wonderful and unexpected perk. Only thing missing is the gender neutral toilet stalls along one wall that face into the work area.

"This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. Next stop....The Twilight Zone (SWIFT work area)."

In all seriousness, I wonder how Honeywell employees that are already working in this environment at the other sites are liking it. Is it a good thing? First impression, is that it looks terrible. Maybe it is not so bad once you learn how to cope with the noise and distractions and become comfortable with being on display while working.

It's referred to as Honeywell 2.0 although I never have figured out why the name. All office spaces are going thus way. Look st Phx engines engr. Test services, look at Redmond, look at corporate. No more personal space and no assigned seating. Cubes have low partitions and are 4x6 in size. More people in same space, no privacy, go to s phone booth to make calls where privacy is needed. It's got work group bolsnoratoon they say, king like the WFH BS.

Have fun

1epk- Yeah, the old, and I mean old, bullpen. I worked in a bullpen environment over 40 years ago. There were literally rows and columns of desks, all facing the same direction. The higher up you were in the pecking order the further back you got to sit. Glad I'm retired now. What a laugh. This is like deja vu all over again, as Yogi would say.

Here ya go:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/?utm_term=.5e4dca275b70

Leave to ALT to adopt a lame corporate way of life, just as it's being proven to be a very bad idea.

We need to fight against this with all our might. It's hard enough to get anything done in a standard cube let alone having to look at you ugly fricken neighbors all day. Just another way to kill productivity you fricken morons.

You may call me stupid, but I turned down and offer from another company that had the proverbial bull pen office layout. It was a deal breaker for me.

@1ktl "Sort of like the Roman Galleons & rowers. Seems like the preferred model now in corporate Amerika."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPr_GBMu4O4

see clip time from 1:10 to 1:30

@-1mfy

Funny you mention that. Many years ago ironically I interviewed at a company called Commodity News Service and they had that open-office environment! I hated the look of it. It was like the whipmaster would walk around in circles and whip everyone all day long. Crazy uncomfortable and noisy/distracting.

Sort of like the Roman Galleons & rowers. Seems like the preferred model now in corporate Amerika.

Nobody has a dedicated workspace, are you serious? How can you practice engineering like that? What kind of company is this?

Commodity workspace for commodity workers in a commodity company. Nothing special here

How has that worked in Morristown and elsewhere. I heard that the basic game was that no one has a dedicated space, but I will bet my house that many people are attempting to go to the same spot or near it just like they do at church or multi-day seminars. And how do these "collaborative groups" manage to find each other and stick together now that WFH is gone.

will be fun for a couple of days. The desks go up and down with a button. but after a while I see it turning into a cheap mexican call center. Like the kind when you get a solicitation call and you can hear all the other workers in the room yapping on the phone. just whatever.