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My current office is pretty ideal for me. We have 6 devs, and we sit in a room with a door. It's quiet, but we can hear if there is a concern or something goi
by wry_discontent 9y ago
My current office is pretty ideal for me. We have 6 devs, and we sit in a room with a door. It's quiet, but we can hear if there is a concern or something going on that requires attention. The issue with single person offices is that you'll miss when somebody is discussing an issue they're having, maybe they mention it offhandedly, and you know the solution.
That said, I would still vastly prefer an office to myself than a god awful open-floor bullshit abomination. How anybody can work in that kind of environment boggles my mind.
- sdoering 9y agoIt is similar where I am working. We have a 4 person office with most of the time only ever places in use. That really contrasts to open plan I had before.
- driverdan 9y agoA team that small is pretty easy to manage in any type of space. Once you're bigger you need to put a lot more thought into planning the office.
- valuearb 9y agoI've worked in 2 man offices that were super distracting. The product manager on the product I wasn't working on would come in to talk to the other engineer, and I could not filter it out, even though it was entirely unrelated to my work. I think the key to a shared work area is that everyone should be on the same team working on the same project, so the distractions are at least pertinent to your job. But I also think you are probably reaching the limits of that with 6 devs.