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How can you concentrate now in a pen of eight? Do you all agree to have occasional quiet times for thinking, wear earmuffs, or what?
by pklausler 9y ago
How can you concentrate now in a pen of eight? Do you all agree to have occasional quiet times for thinking, wear earmuffs, or what?
- CydeWeys 9y agoIt's really not bad at all. I'm not overly prone to distractions. Most of the time no one is talking (we're all engineers on the same team after all; it's not like we have salespeople on calls throughout the day). It's naturally pretty quiet most of the time, and I almost never feel the need to put on headphones to escape from the conversations that do occur, as they're all related to the team's work and thus something that might be useful to overhear.
- bmarkovic 9y agoThis. On a prior job I was in a mixed team (me being the only engineer in the room, and a team lead) and it was like a dorm room or a cafe. No way to concentrate doing anything, but luckily it was a gov't shop so no one was expected to do much real work anyway. Currently I'm a much more relaxed (in terms of HR rules and even IT rules) tech company but the work atmosphere is full zone in. Very little chatter, soft downtempo music plodding along all day long and people doing actual work all the time and ever so rarely some "clear our heads" banter.