Question

A software development company wants to reorganize its office so that managers and the Computer Programmers they supervise can better collaborate. How should they rearrange the workplace? Remove the private offices and cubicles and replace them with large desks and conference tables out in the open. Remove the private offices and replace them with cubicles for the managers and large desks out in the open for workers. Remove the cubicles and conference tables out in the open and replace them with larger private offices for all employees. Remove the cubicles and conference tables and replace them with couches and comfortable chairs out in the open.

Answer 1

The best way to increase collaboration between a supervisor and her or his subordinates, which in this case is the computer programmers, would be through option (A) remove the private offices and cubicles and replace them with large desks and conference tables out in the open.

By choosing to implement an open office layout, greater communication between the supervisor and computer programmers would occur compared to when they were separated.