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What Our Office Learned Working Naked For One Month
http://www.thebolditalic.com/article...onically-nsfw-
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by Jessica Saia & Sierra Hartman
Apr 01 at 6am
The Bold Italic’s headquarters utilizes an open-office floor plan, and I think my coworkers would agree that there are pros and cons. Throwing ideas around is as easy as swiveling your desk chair, yet people started to work from home more and more frequently, somehow getting multiple days’ worth of work done in a single day, and returning to the office feeling refreshed. We took a moment at the beginning of this year to reflect on the situation: what was it about working from home that made everyone so productive and happy? Most people cited a lack of interruptions, which allowed them to deeply focus on certain tasks — an argument that was, of course, immediately ignored, since “disruption” has been hailed time and time again as the be-all-and-end-all element of modern success. When it came to light during post-work happy-hour chitchat that nearly all of us worked from home sans pants, it clicked. Perhaps it wasn’t the lack of walls that was hindering our work at the office; maybe there were simply more barriers that had yet to be unbuttoned.
Clothes: the last obstruction to the truly perfected working environment
I know this is San Francisco, one of the most hospitable places for anything nudity-based to take root, but that’s not to say that the experiment was immediately embraced with across-the-board enthusiasm. The majority reaction to the idea of being naked among coworkers was to ask a resounding “Can we . . . not?” and make pleading disclaimers about how long it’d been since people had stopped going to CrossFit. But on Monday, March 2, we all came to the office with nervous, curious energy. We hesitantly disrobed, folding each layer to a live track of increasingly awkward laughter until, there we were: naked
Looking back, I can honestly estimate that it took under an hour for things to stop being weird and start being awesome. By day three, it all seemed so incredibly normal, and the benefits were astounding — everything the open-office trend promised and more. We instantly shared a gleeful camaraderie; a deep and trusting bond permeated every meeting. Productivity skyrocketed once we implemented a “nipples hard = need to focus, nipples soft = have time to talk” system, and it turns out that creativity is at its peak when your genitals are unbound. (“Free your genitals, free your mind,” I always say.)
There were tons of less-obvious benefits as well: we all started packing our own lunches or ordering pizzas together, as the act of redressing to run out (thanks, Scott Weiner) became more and more unappealing, and who needs to go to the dermatologist when you’ve got a team of people monitoring your every mole? Sure, our heating bills went up a bit, and we could collect enough rogue pubes to furnish the scalp of a small doll, but it’s a very small price to pay for this level of workplace satisfaction. Our events director was laughing the other day about having a legitimate nightmare that she was giving a presentation at the office and looked down to find she was completely clothed.
Sure, our heating bills went up a bit, and we could collect enough rogue pubes to furnish the scalp of a small doll, but it’s a very small price to pay for this level of workplace satisfaction.
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One of the guys was serving but pretty cool idea.
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