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> "Get... ceiling baffles for the whole office." Yes please! At least this. For some reason there has been this huge trend with new buildings to just have expo
by erentz 9y ago
> "Get... ceiling baffles for the whole office."
Yes please! At least this. For some reason there has been this huge trend with new buildings to just have exposed concrete ceilings and HVAC plant. Why? Seemingly because it's "cool" and how the "start ups" do it. (Back when a start up meant working from a low cost warehouse.) But ceiling baffles were there for a very good reason, to dampen and prevent reflection of noise in office spaces. How did we forget this?
EDIT: (At the last place I worked like this their solution was to install white noise generators on the ceiling. So the whole place was like being on an aircraft and very sleep inducing.)
- freehunter 9y agoOh man as a traveling consultant, I purposefully trained myself to fall asleep on an airplane and anytime I hear anything resembling white noise I'm instantly asleep. Having it in a building would just lead to an increase in naps from me.
- goblin89 9y agoHow did you train yourself to fall asleep on an airplane?
- freehunter 9y agoI have an app that plays noise that sounds like a jet engine that I play as I'm falling asleep. After a few weeks of that, being on a plane just knocks me right out.