Work & AmbitionBafflegab
Open-Plan Office
OH-pun plan OF-isnoun
What it means
A design philosophy that converts the cost of walls into the cost of concentration.
What it actually means
Cheaper for them, louder for you.
How it is used in a sentence
"The open-plan office really encourages spontaneous collaboration."
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Work & Ambition — Everything your employer calls a benefit and your therapist calls a symptom.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
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An office policy that converts the cost of a desk into the cost of arriving at seven in the morning to compete for one.
Real meaningWe sold your desk and called it freedom.