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The irony
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I mean, I’d take prison cell over open space offices.
Probably same. It’s been a looong time since I worked in an office but at least prison cells have full height walls lmao
This looks like open space with a window added.
Solitary confinement vs group cell
The architecture is pretty interesting tbh
For real. This building would have most certainly languished for years and then been torn down to be replaced by a cookie cutter development. Instead it has been repurposed in a unique way (by the city, not Amazon) so that it can continue to be used (by many companies, not just Amazon).
It's fun to laugh at the irony, but overall this is a good thing.
Agreed, and personally I would much rather work smaller nicely renovated jail cells, than a cubicle hellscape.
It’s designed for omnipresent surveillance of all of the cells, in such a manner that the people in the cells can’t tell if or when they’re being directly surveilled, such that a single guard can provide surveillance to an entire prison. It’s supposed to be a method of self/surveillance, as those in the cells never know when they’re being surveilled they act as though they always are. It’s a chilling metaphor for modern surveillance and capitalism and the irony becomes even more ironic given that this is Amazon who’s decided that they need to observe all their employees all the time.
Jokes on them, my monitor faces the back wall.
Looks like the whole thing isn't Amazon's, but they rent space in it along with other companies
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-office-former-prison-de-koepel-netherlands-2023-11
I think maybe the Dutch are trying to rehabilitate unused spaces, but fail to see the irony.
And in the middle one Central Echo dot to do all the surveillance.
We have a restaurant in an old prison
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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