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I've worked in a cube. I've shared an office with one other person with a variety of different desk arrangements. I've had my own office. I currently share an o

by amyjess 11y ago

I've worked in a cube. I've shared an office with one other person with a variety of different desk arrangements. I've had my own office. I currently share an office with three other people (almost an open office). I vastly prefer sharing an office with one other person where both of us have our backs to the wall over any of the others. Having my own office is too isolating for my tastes, but I don't like wide open spaces, and I don't like people being able to sneak up behind me.

kzhahou 11y ago
> I don't like people being able to sneak up behind me This doesn't get discussed enough, compared to noise. There's something very primal about wanting to defend our backs. At work, in a restaurant, at the library... I want to have my back against the wall. My lizard brain thinks it's protecting me from predators, but my modern brain really doesn't want a pair of eyes behind me when I'm on email, or reddit, or whatever. And I don't want people to make their inevitable comments whenever I bury my face in my hands to just THINK for a while.