It wouldn't bother me at all, but I am exceptionally used to being stared at. If a group of people gathered at the window to watch me I might start to get uncomfortable (though I would ignore them), but if it's just people glancing in as they walk by it wouldn't be a big deal at all.
I spent 6 years in an office without a window. It was a very big office, but I'd take almost any window over no window. I'd still use blinds in that office, but light nice.
I just couldn't help but look up every time somebody walked by. I'd never be able to concentrate.
I'm not very good at concentrating anyway.
Unless "concentrate" is a euphemism for nose mining, then I understand your concern.
It's very disappointing that here we are basically 20 years into the era of internet news and yet the link in 6 not only doesn't contain any pictures of the artist showering, it doesn't even contain a link to any pictures of the artist showering.
In downtown Baltimore there is a center for marine biotechnology that opened back in the 90s. I don't know how it is now, but when it first opened there were glass walls on one side of the labs and visitors to the nearby National Aquarium could walk past and look at the scientists at work as though they were an exhibit in a zoo.
I had a job recently where I had that (desk right next to a wall of windows on the ground floor next to the entrance) and I actually enjoyed it. The amount of light was a huge factor, of course, but also the people-watching: sure, everyone could see me, but I could see them too, and people can act downright weird in public spaces! There were kids making some kind of art project/video thing that involved them lying on the ground, people playing with a drone, and the more mundane people picking their noses etc.
Of course, there were also blinds I could draw when I wanted, and that makes a big difference.
The link in 6 is from 2000, so maybe they didn't have the technology.
I'd keep some fake poo-like substance (a loku loku or something) on my desk that I could fling at anyone who looked in the window for too long.
I know someone who used to have such an office, ground level, in a downtown area full of restaurants/cafes. Blinds, of course, but still strange.
I could deal with a full window wall facing an exterior public space. I would greatly prefer that to having no window. However, many of the offices in my current building contain full window walls on major thoroughfares with a ton of pedestrian traffic, but the thoroughfares are all just (large) interior hallways or corridors. So the people constantly passing by aren't the general public, they're you're coworkers, and also you don't actually have an exterior window so no sunlight or real view. That, I could not handle. Those offices are all referred to as "the fishbowl offices", for good reason.
Because the floor is covered in vividly colored rocks.
With a treasure chest that opens and closes perpetually.
I think it's just because the occupants feel like they are on full display to all the gawking passerby's, with no place to hide.
Plus having their lunch sprinkled on them from the ceiling.
Sex in the office would be problematic.
That's why they just fertilize each others' eggs, instead.
Sex in the office would be problematic.
On the plus side, that probably makes it less likely that you'll arrive at your office to find students having sex on your desk.
That hardly ever happens. Fewer than one or two days a term.
Are you sure your colleague isn't SEK?
24: Right, because you'll be able to see them from a distance.
9: I'm pretty sure that's a science museum thing now. Unveil the mysteries of scientific work, engage the public, and all that. Although it may be more common to set it up like a demonstration lab rather than a window into someone's regular working space.
15: Turns out I was not in fact pregnant forever. Our little pastiche showed up fashionably late (a week late on the nose) and has been allowing us to marvel at his cuteness for a bit over a week now.
28: Yeah, the Natural History Museum in London has a newish bit like that - the Darwin Centre.
Did the baby have to sleep in an open room, with little separation from other babies, in front of a big window in full view of passersby?
I mean, congratulations!
Thanks everyone! We're enjoying the new baby bubble when we just get to hang out and enjoy each other, it's quite lovely.
41: You mean like Coney Island? http://www.coneyislandhistory.org/index.php?g=hall_of_fame&s=couney