Management at a company decides that it’s going to “experiment with”...
Yeah, in this case you already lost, because the managers will be the ones doing the evaluation, so you can bet that if they want to do X, they will declare X to be a success regardless of anything that happened in reality.
To make it more legit, they may even give everyone a questionnaire like “Did open space increase your productivity?” Note that the only options are “increased” and “not increased”, there is no “decreased”, so you can only be neutral or positive about the whole thing. Furthermore, if all managers choose “increased” that alone is enough to conclude that “50% of employees answered that their productivity increased”.
Yeah, in this case you already lost, because the managers will be the ones doing the evaluation, so you can bet that if they want to do X, they will declare X to be a success regardless of anything that happened in reality.
To make it more legit, they may even give everyone a questionnaire like “Did open space increase your productivity?” Note that the only options are “increased” and “not increased”, there is no “decreased”, so you can only be neutral or positive about the whole thing. Furthermore, if all managers choose “increased” that alone is enough to conclude that “50% of employees answered that their productivity increased”.