a single office layout pattern for all teams and individuals in the same geographic location.
monolithic workplace
2 of our books define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
A monolithic workplace is a single office-layout pattern for all teams and individuals in the same geographic location—typically isolated individual work spaces (cubicles) or an open-plan layout without explicit barriers between people’s desks
— Team Topologies, in “Chapter 6: Choose Team-First Boundaries”, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
See also Brooks’s law · cognitive load · collaboration mode · complicated-subsystem team · Dunbar’s number · enabling team
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