In a workplace, learning happens when you collaborate. It happens when you interact with your colleagues and contemporaries. And it also happens when you hear your colleague talking to a prospect or a client on the phone. In other words, it happens when you hear each other, when you sit next to each other.
Unless your role and the nature of job demands privacy, there’s no reason why we should seclude employees from each other and put them behind highrise cubicles or worse, in offices, far from hearing distance of each other.
Dear Manager, break down those cubicles and you’ll see a startling transformation in learning and productivity that comes from healthy feedback and competition.
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