The OfficePOD is a sleek, modern looking outdoor self-contained work environment designed to keep out distractions, and help you focus on getting work done at home. It’s aimed at telecommuters, who may be worried about the distractions that can come with working from home like yelling kids, pets, television and piles of dirty dishes. The pods are being marketed more to companies employing telecommuters, as a benefit and a kind of assurance that work will be getting done by physically absent employees.
Although the OfficePODs looks really nice, at an estimated $7,100 a year it seems like a lot to pay. Distractions could be just as easily drowned out with strict rules and a pair of headphones. Plus the pod just feels a little too much a like a remote extension of a cubicle farm, and isn’t that something a telecommuter is trying to escape?
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oh joy. just what i need. a cubicle at work AND at home.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Exactly.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Highly ignorant. .yet largely opinionated american bullisht as usual.
Yes i’m american, and yes we are quite slow. .
In particular here. .most of us so called ‘contributing’ members of society/of the professional workforce, are already subdued into a Matrix like ‘battery’ mind state courtesy of the stellar brainwash efforts of our wonderful [wow] government and corporate america.
So. .we’ve all been slaves to the cubicle mind state for years anyway.
Thus. .the opod is a STELLAR idea, as it brings us much closer to ACTUALLY performing in the workplace, not brainstorming. <<Which seems to be our worthless claim to fame in what has become our society of servitude and NO MANUFACTURING.
Furthermore. .w/this ‘invention’ we could actually catch up to the hundreds of other countries who work half the time [work day/work week/work year] we do and CONTINUOUSLY get 3 times as much production done. .
It’d be nice if we could wake up from denial.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:24 pm