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Are you a developer? I recall studies that say any interruption costs 30 minutes of productivity for developers. When you put it into cost terms, someone talkin
by Clubber 9y ago
Are you a developer? I recall studies that say any interruption costs 30 minutes of productivity for developers. When you put it into cost terms, someone talking in an open office for 30 seconds can literally cost hundreds or thousands of dollars of productivity.
- watwut 9y agoI think that his point was that similar drop of productivity happen to other professions. Programming is not the only work that requires focus. Even with programming it does matter what tasks you are working on. Many tasks don't need that much time to get into and out of it, only some do.
- Clubber 9y ago>I think that his point was that similar drop of productivity happen to other professions. Oh, I see. Yes, I would wholeheartedly agree with that. To his point, I would say many people on here don't necessarily think developers are special in that regard, but most people are developers and they are speaking on that which they know. I'm a developer (obviously) and I couldn't intelligently speak on how interruptions would disrupt a soft skill profession such as marketing, sales or HR.
- watwut 9y agoImo, both marketing and sales cause so many interruptions to everyone around, that if their own productivity is harmed by it, they really should do something about it. They are seriously winning the "who is the most noisy most interrupting office" competition.
- NikolaeVarius 9y agoI've worked in multiple roles, including developer. 30 minutes of lost productivity in a dev role is peanuts compared to lost productivity in an engineering job where an hour of engineering work is $300+ of charged time. And with all this complaining about interruptions and lost productivity, its really only the "sexy tech startups" that seem to have ping pong and foosball tables to waste time playing.