I worked for Best Buy in the main office, which has four connected towers.
The place was crowded enough when I arrived as a new contract developer – basically one big room with thirty developers with desks and low partitions.
Circa 2011, everyone from Tower D was relocated to the towers, so D could be rented out (to a firm that collected credit card debts from the families of dead people, as I heard it).
My group was made denser by giving everyone a desk about two and a half feet by three, grouping desks in cluster of four, with two-foot aisles between clusters, for a total of, what, fifty people? Sixty?
I can’t think under those conditions so I did something about it – I declared that I was working from home, and did so until they (very reasonably) let me go.
