bean-counter, open-plan office

open-plan

ADJECTIVE

• (of a room or building) having large rooms with few or no internal dividing walls.

  ‘an open-plan office’

  • ‘The five-storey building features open-plan office spaces, designed to promote teamwork and good communication.’

Jeremy Paxman: "Like the filthy term “typing pool”, the open-plan office tells us precisely what our bosses think of us – that we are employed to fulfil a mechanical task and that we are all interchangeable. It is the bean-counter’s answer to the wrong question" (via Comment is free)










Jeremy Paxman: If I were king for a day, I would ban open-plan offices


Such offices tell us what our bosses think of us – that we are employed to...


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bean counter Line breaks: bean counter
Pronunciation:
NOUN INFORMAL

A person, typically an accountant or bureaucrat, perceived as placing excessive emphasis on controlling expenditure and budgets:their bean counters will switch to a new way of calculating GDP

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open-plan

ADJECTIVE

• (of a room or building) having large rooms with few or no internal dividing walls.

  ‘an open-plan office’

  • ‘The five-storey building features open-plan office spaces, designed to promote teamwork and good communication.’