Open Space Retraction

Open Space at Work:

1. Forces you to be social, come out of your shell, talk to people you would never encounter.

2. Catches you up on current events that you were trying to avoid, but then realize you can’t because we are cultural sponges and need always to KNOW.

3. Makes you realize that you are not a robot at a computer in a box inside a bigger box.

4. Forces you out of the hole when sometimes you want to hide.

5. Makes you realize you are a coward for ever wanting to hide. Thus, makes you stronger, speak up more, and have the mental balls to ask for what you need.

6. Makes you give into your human need to be nosy.

7. Makes the human need to be nosy, a human right.

8. Inspires you to start new conversations. With the mailman. With anyone you wouldn't.

9. Forces you to invest in much better headphones.

10. Get the dirt. Get the gossip. Get the goods.*

11. Makes people work more together, instead of isolated in a hole. *

12. Let’s the sunshine in and not contained inside a cement wall. Walls never appreciate sun like people inside offices.

13. Actually SEE the work be created that’s coming out of the agency

14. Forces the inner uber productive robot inside that obsessively needs things to get done, to just, relax.

* Thank you Daniela
* Thank you Tom