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- Free Drinks / Snacks / Lunches - 20% Time - Music/Stereo System in the office - Work from Home Days (where everyone does)

• archangel_one 16y ago
  I'm not convinced by the music thing. We have music at our office but in practice it rapidly trends towards whatever offends the least people which is normally some kind of "easy listening" dreck. This doesn't seem to work for most people, given that a fair number of us still listen to our own music on ipods or whatever. I suppose it would be a nice little benefit if the music played was interesting and cool, but I'm not convinced that's likely to actually work very often.
  • rosser 16y ago
    IME, that works a lot better in smaller offices. When there's only a handful of folks among whose musical tastes we needed to coordinate, it was a lot easier. More than that, and I'd just fall back to headphones.
  • SupremumLimit 16y ago
    Not everybody likes working with music on, either. I can do it some times but not others, and if I have music on, it has to be something I know/like, otherwise it's too distracting. I had a job where people played music on a stereo and it was frustrating most of the time. So it's something to be wary of and not a benefit in my book.
  • kapilkaisare 16y ago
    mpd or other music servers might be useful for this.
  • daemin 16y ago
    Headphones / earphones are always the answer. Not only can you listen to music with them on, listen to whatever music you want, it's also a bit more of an effort for other people to bug you and take you out of the flow. Of course you can still be interrupted but the barrier is ever so slightly higher.