Those open of­fices bio­phar­ma ex­ecs love so much? Most staffers hate them with a pas­sion

The next time you hear an ex­ec­u­tive boast about the cool new open of­fice de­sign they’ve adopt­ed to en­cour­age col­lab­o­ra­tion and the vi­ral spread of new ideas, keep this in mind: Most work­ers hate it.

How do we know? We asked. And the 606 re­spons­es we got left lit­tle to the imag­i­na­tion.

In­spired by As­traZeneca’s new Bay Area head­quar­ters in South San Fran­cis­co, where they’re pulling in work­ers from all around the re­gion in­to one new cen­ter, we pushed out a snap poll yes­ter­day to gauge the in­dus­try’s sen­ti­ment to this wild­ly pop­u­lar idea. 

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