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Is it worth sacrificing productivity to save a few bucks? How many dollars are you wasting? Even if an engineer is 1-5% less productive, compounded over a coupl

• nimmer 10y ago
  More like 25%, have you tried focusing in a noisy environment all day long?
  • pasbesoin 10y ago
    In my estimate, you are still way low. In one environment I spent a number of years in, once work-at-home became more acceptable, almost universally, the most productive people -- by my prior and continuing observation -- pushed to add as much of it to their schedule as they could manage. Even the real collaboration -- email and instant messaging, first. Phone calls where needed. Some face-to-face meetings could be plenty productive, when properly defined and run. The far majority were not, however. The best people hated open space. Those who loved it, you typically had to remind 5 times of everything. Or nag. Increasing your own burden, in the process.
    • CyberFonic 10y ago
      Perhaps those who like open plan offices are multi-tasking extroverts? Studies show that humans, like overloaded CPUs, loss efficiency when swapping tasks in and out and in ... responding to interrupts, inter....