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> politeness dictates that you don't want to interrupt other people. Maybe, but I think it's more of a clash of personalities rather than politeness. People i
by djhworld 8y ago
> politeness dictates that you don't want to interrupt other people.
Maybe, but I think it's more of a clash of personalities rather than politeness.
People in my area (all technical/engineers/product managers) are all quiet and communicate mostly over Slack.
The people opposite us are from business development or something definitely more people oriented, and they're all yapping away at each other all day. Have no qualms about interrupting other people, because that's just the way they work.
Might be a bit of an extrovert/introvert thing too
- olliej 8y agoHowever this study was comparing communication and productivity from the same group, just moving those people from offices to an open plan with same general layout of people, in the same area (they were just moved up one floor). The amount over face to face communication decreased (more than 50% I think), and the overall performance (according to the company’s own metrics) decreased as well. It’s basically the closest to a controlled study of office vs open plan in the real world that you could ask for. The one thing open plan is meant to just “obviously” result in is collaboration and face to face communication. The numbers they got directly countered that.