Over the decades, a lot of really stupid management fads have come and gone, including:

1. Six Sigma, where employees wear different colored belts (like in karate) to show they've been trained in the methodology.
2. Stack Ranking, where employees are encouraged to rat each other out in order to secure their own advancement and budget.
3. Consensus Management, where all decisions must pass through multiple committees before being implemented.

It need hardly be said that these fads were and are (at best) a waste of time and (at worst) a set of expensive distractions. But open plan offices are worse. Much worse. Why? Because they decrease rather than increase employee collaboration.

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