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When I read your first post I thought you were just being uptight, but that does sound completely terrible. I find background music can help or hinder dependin
by bartread 10y ago
When I read your first post I thought you were just being uptight, but that does sound completely terrible.
I find background music can help or hinder depending on what I'm trying to do but it needs to be under my control. Out of consideration for others that means headphones.
And I hate open plan offices - don't even get me started. Place I'm working at the moment is awful for noise and overcrowding.
Funny thing is I find it hard to work in a completely silent environment unless I'm on my own - if the atmosphere is crypt-like with other people around I find it quite oppressive.
- chris_7 10y agoWhen I have to work unpaid overtime on the weekends, I get to work at home. I'm so much more productive then.
- Grishnakh 10y agoI hate open-plan offices with a passion. Especially when I get stuck on a high-traffic corridor. Strangely, though, I do like spending time in coffee shops. Maybe companies should just do away with offices altogether (walled, cubicles, and open), and turn the company building into a giant coffee shop with free drinks and pastries, nice decor, etc. Provide some meeting rooms so teams can meet in person, but otherwise just let everyone find a little alcove in the coffee shop to work in.