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Hello, welcome to another episode of the weeds on the box media podcast network. I'm Matthew Glacias joined by Jane Coston, pro public as Darryl Lindt.

Today we are going to do an Ask Weeds anything episode. We got some great questions here in the Facebook chat.

A lot of good stuff. Every time I start reading these, my first glance is like, how are we going to show out of this?

And by the end, I'm like, oh my god, how are we possibly going to address all the good questions here? So we probably won't.

But let's start with, by far, the most important political issue of the day. Chris Coffley asks, is the open office the worst productivity concept of the 21st century?

No. And we were just talking about this. And I think that I think we came to the conclusion that one of the challenges with open offices, which if you're unaware of what an open office is, it's essentially probably whatever you have.

If you're unaware of what an open office is, I have lots of questions about your class status in the 21st century.

Well, that's my question because I think that for many people, like, for instance, of my parents age, the concept of an open office where people don't really have offices is like a relatively new, fangled idea, but for people of our ilk and the class status, the open office is day regor.

I believe I've only, let's see, I've worked in, I've had many jobs and the vast majority have been open office situations, but in general, the open office, I think is it is itself to me value neutral.

It's just how many people are in the open office, how loud are the people in the open office, and are one of the people in the open office me who likes to stop by and say hello to people and talk with their mouths, which some people apparently don't like.

Well, so this is theoretically the reason you have open offices, right? The hypothetical, the like, idealist argument for open offices is you want to create an environment in which people feel that they can collaborate without having to set up meetings or interrupt their colleagues.

The problem with that, of course, is that generally in an office environment, some people are trying to buckle down and get worked on at any given time.

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