I’m probably in the minority here, but I prefer open offices. I prefer open spaces in general and try to work outdoors as often as possible when the weather permits. So to me, an open office is the ideal work environment with the minor concession that I need to share it with 4-6 others.
That's not an open office. That's a team room and they are fantastic.
Open office where you share the same hall like space with tens of other people, are constantly interrupted by random guffaw and noise from people you hardly would have any need to interact in any way, and people constantly navigate around your space on their way to somewhere.
One can spend large amounts of money on a wedding without having a priest present to conduct the ceremony. That, too, is a cultural phenomenon, not purely a religious one.
the difference is whether you actually believe it or are just doing it for fun. you can sing a Christmas song or put on a Christmas hat for the fun of it and still be atheist for example. in Japan you can greet the new year at a temple becasue it's a fun activity to do with your friends and family and not because you actually believe in any deity blessings you
that said Japanese are superstitious (in general). not sure if more or less than other places
> The good thing is that it means now they care a lot about what we think of them. They didn't before. So at least, if they haven't changed, they are forced to act like they have.
I’ve never found a compelling reason to use this construct (or the analogous `while...else` construct). But then again, I rarely find myself using `else` with `if` either...
How is it racism to say India has a caste system and they've had a lot of practice? It has nothing to do with the colour of their skin (or whatever else you usually base "race" on - I'm not from a culture that uses it like that so I don't understand fully), rather it's a given of the country.
So, at my company, we have yearly reviews. Instead of looking at how productive people are from week to week, people are allowed to vary in their productivity throughout the year. Theoretically (although this never happens in practice because humans) an employee could deliver enough tangible value in the first half of the year and take the rest of the year off. It is the employees’ responsibility to show how productive they have been. That productivity is preferably measured in relatively tangible terms (backed by data), such as number of customers impacted, cost/revenue changes, or time savings. This requires a lot of trust, and places a lot of importance on the hiring bar, but it pays off.
I wrote this as one of my first HTML/JavaScript projects. It’s far from perfect, but it served me well for 4 years. It was not difficult to make and uses MediaWikis existing APIs.
