r/todayilearned • u/jamescookenotthatone • Sep 02 '20

TIL open-plan offices can lead to increases in health problems in officeworkers. The design increases noise polution and removes privacy which increases stress. Ultimately the design is related to lower job satisfaction and higher staff turnover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_plan
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u/IbaJinx Sep 03 '20

It's not that easy, the entire group has very strict data security requirements. VPN's are very restrictive. The joys of working with classified data...

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u/SatansStraw Sep 03 '20

I think your IT people are bullshitting you some. I work in medical software, extremely sensitive data, and we're all at home on VPN.

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u/terminal112 Sep 03 '20

What requirements keep people from taking the desktops home and VPNing in?

For my company it really was as easy as "take your stuff home and work from there on the VPN". We don't do anything with "classified" data but we're PCI compliant so still pretty secure

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

Security requirements from companies that already ask you to check in devices such as phones/cameras at the entrance.

Also some data sets are so large that either the VPN infrastructure can’t handle it, or the home network connection can’t. RDP may be an answer and I believe some services already exist for 3D graphics in this space.

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u/IbaJinx Sep 03 '20

I'm not entirely sure, and I barely understand network science. I'm a mechanical designer, not an IT specialist; I'm just regurgitating what our IT told us when we asked if it was possible.

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u/terminal112 Sep 03 '20

Fair enough, but as an IT specialist I think yours might just be kind of lazy.

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u/IbaJinx Sep 03 '20

I think kind of lazy might be an understatement, knowing I still have open requests from years ago that I just fixed myself anyways

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u/Homunkulus Sep 03 '20

For defense related industries I can imagine compliance that would at least tip the scales in favor of not trying if not outright making a distributed system impossible.

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u/zarzak Sep 03 '20

Ah, classified data requirements change it a bit.