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Seriously, who instigates these fads? It's like every year there's some new business model that everyone follows like a bunch of lemmings. Last year (or the yea
by a1b2c3 11y ago
Seriously, who instigates these fads? It's like every year there's some new business model that everyone follows like a bunch of lemmings. Last year (or the year before?) it was everyone working in the office (as opposed to at home) because someone at Yahoo! decreed that was the way to go.
- x0rg 11y agoYou can just take it this way: if a company follow such stupid trends is a company worth leaving.
- mbesto 11y agoIf it isn't obvious, announcements like these are purely PR. Once the general public starts reading the stories like "Facebook is agile and uses open offices", they begin to associate the experience of their Facebook iPhone app with the result using agile and open offices. They then ask their boss why their CRUD accounting/finance/analytics app can't look and feel like FB and then those bosses (the CRUD vendor clients) put pressure on their vendors (such as IBM) to change or they're going elsewhere.