> Well, to be completely honest,
> that's what I thought about
> Donald Trump.

Point taken.

Recommended rhetoric, can be offered sincerely or in a cynical tone of voice if necessary:

Do voters nationwide want *another* New York City billionaire to serve as Chief Executive?

But here's the list. Diller's the only one from whom I'd want to hear (or read) of a thinking-about-it speech.

Do any workers actually LIKE open office plans?

No they do not. Open offices are for bosses who are too cheap to pay for cubicles.

In the interests of accuracy there are some who like open office other than their cheapskate bosses.

On Bloomberg, he may or may not get the nomination but winning the election is a very slim chance. Just like with Trump most of the people running for the Democrat nomination are not really electable. It's been called a clown car for a reason. Unfortunately for Bloomberg he is little different from the rest of the circus. Also just like with Trump I doubt the polling will be accurate. It is still to dangerous to be honest with strangers. Once people are in an anonymous voting booth we will find out what their real views are. Till then it is any one's guess. There is also a good chance of a contested convention where super delegates pick the candidate. I don't run in those circles so I haven't a clue who they are favoring.

Only an out-of-touch megalomaniac would think that what people really want is to sit in an open office within arms reach of him, their boss; or that promising such an arrangement would motivate them to vote for him.

That such an arrangement is not practical for an enterprise where conversations need to be private and secure appears not to have crossed his mind. I wonder how many other truths about being president have not crossed his mind.

Even most Trump voters probably don't, especially Bloomberg.

Bloomy wants to take our guns, so no, don't like, won't vote for him. Ever.

Wouldn't DiBlasio make a MUCH better President than Bloomberg?

Here he is protecting New Year's revelers from buying overpriced pizza.

The collaboration thing was always a bs excuse for open office space. The real reason for open office spaces is cost and bosses who don't trust employees. It is well known that noise is stressful for the body and that interruptions interfere with complex tasks. If Bloomberg thinks this shows how forward-thinking he is...not.

Do we really want to trust that the intern sitting next to the Prez won't Instagram it when there's some nuclear threat from North Korea?

That might not be such a bad thing, though Democrats don't seem to have as big of a problem with leaks as Republicans do. But unless Bloomberg and his staff are really really really stupid (and he's probably not) he'll never be working in an environment where where some intern or other unvetted or not-highly-trusted person can hear everything. He's probably not honest enough to risk working in such an open environment anyway. As with most campaigning politicians, what he says has nothing to do with what he'll do if he's elected. That picture of an open office under his tweet looks like an awful place to work.

Bloomberg has something like 20,000 employees, and they are located in a lot of different places. The proportion of those that could drop by Mike Bloomberg's open office for a chat is minuscule, even he he were to devote the majority of his day to such activity.

Actually improving communication and employee empowerment, as opposed to merely posturing about such things, is largely a matter of having an intelligent organization structure and putting the right people in the key management positions.