I don’t mean this personally, but Amazon’s arbitrary office policy is not my problem. Sure, give me an office mate, that’s fine. But I’m not going to spend one minute worrying about the optics of being able to do the work Amazon ostensibly wants me to do.” Within a day the design leader and I are in an office, and just by getting out of the line of sight, I find that my productivity triples. And I make a note that sometimes asking for what you need turns out okay.
