If you really want to know it makes you look more powerful. Same reason churchs are built to look the way they do.
You walk into a room with a BIG table and the guy in there tells you to sit on the opposite side from him so you have almost yell to hear eachother. If you were friends this would be crazy, you'd sit next to eachother, but you aren't friends, he's your boss. He can make you do that, and you're going to comply. You'll feel small and silly trying to talk to your boss from across the room over this ridiculous table, and that's exactly what he wants. To put real physical separation and psychological separation between the two of you. For you to know your place.
Turkmenistan aside, what's up with putin and comically large tables?
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If you really want to know it makes you look more powerful. Same reason churchs are built to look the way they do.
You walk into a room with a BIG table and the guy in there tells you to sit on the opposite side from him so you have almost yell to hear eachother. If you were friends this would be crazy, you'd sit next to eachother, but you aren't friends, he's your boss. He can make you do that, and you're going to comply. You'll feel small and silly trying to talk to your boss from across the room over this ridiculous table, and that's exactly what he wants. To put real physical separation and psychological separation between the two of you. For you to know your place.
TLDR::bottom-speak: (==BIG TABLE==) :top-use-words: