Because it's been bothering me...

[sabotabby]

Has anyone ever written a thesis applying Foucault's analysis of the Panopticon to the design of open-concept offices?

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[zingerella.livejournal.com]

'Cept that in my office all cubicles are set up so that the worker, sitting at her computer, has her back to the entrance and corridor. So anyone walking along the carpeted corridor can see her work, but she can't see when anyone's coming, and has a perpetually itchy spot between her shoulder blades.

It's worse than the open concept office, where you can at least see who's lookin' at you.

[sabotabby]

Oh fer Christ's sake.

I'd go nuts.