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For over a year, our dev team has been begging management to fix our open-office. It's loud, distracting, and negatively impacts our productivity. The team want
by tradesmanhelix 9y ago
For over a year, our dev team has been begging management to fix our open-office. It's loud, distracting, and negatively impacts our productivity. The team wants 1/2 height cloth cubicles that would provide a limited measure of privacy and personal space while also helping to dampen the noise. Their response: Buy on-desk semi-transparent plastic partitions that just provide another noise-amplifying hard surface...
Thankfully, I was recently hired onto a 100% remote development team and put in my 2 weeks. I'm done with open office floor plans and hope to never again work at a company that uses them for developers.
- rhizome 9y agoTheir response: Buy on-desk semi-transparent plastic partitions that just provide another noise-amplifying hard surface... LOL. "Isn't there some gadget at OfficeMax we can use instead?" The most bizarre part of these stories is that cheap, used cubicles are as common as tennis shoes.
- Corrado 9y agoOur solution was to use flattened cardboard boxes as extra walls in our way-to-small cubes. It looked horrible but it worked. Management didn't seem to mind...
- therealdrag0 9y agoI hope you mention the dissatisfaction with the environment in your exit interview.