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Sound of Colleagues
- pjerem 4y agoEvery time I stumble upon a project like this one, I'm impressed that people would miss the sound of open space. I can understand that people have some reasons to prefer going to the office instead of WFH but, missing the sound of it ?
- mstade 4y agoI'm this guy. I can't sit in a too quiet space and get anything done, I'll go stir crazy. I usually work out of coffee shops or on my balcony where I can hear kids playing in the yard, some traffic, someone listening to radio a bit further away.. random noise. Without it, after maybe 20-30 minutes I get antsy and need to get out. I could do without all the bird noises though, the sea gulls here are incredibly annoying.
- kgeist 4y ago> I can't sit in a too quiet space Music doesn't help? Everyone at our office has headphones on with music exactly to stop hearing distracting background noise. Nothing really changes for me when I go remote - same music.
- prmoustache 4y agoAll it takes is opening a window really.
- tayo42 4y agoRadios and kids playing are the worst noises. Idk how you do it. I like the sounds of birds lol.
- blablabla123 4y agoSame for me. I mean for really difficult and focussed work I prefer a very quiet place but for rather standard work an open space is perfect, keeps me from falling asleep
- PeterStuer 4y agoIf only the reverse existed. A lightweight piece of software you can play through your speakers to disappear all that noise from a real office environment. I guess the industrial grade hearing protector industry would take a major hit though.
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- wildmanx 4y agoOffice designers on the European continent have come up with an ingenious invention for this: Individual offices! Site managers in North America rarely want to hear this, since it's more expensive and supposedly prevents close collaboration and encourages slackers, but that's just a bunch of BS. It's absolutely fantastic to just be able to close your door and have peace and quiet if you need to get into flow. Much better than being forced to wear headphones all day, for noise-cancellation or forced-music-listening instead.
- bearmode 4y agoWe have a big problem with open plan offices in Europe as well. Individual offices are far rarer than open plan.
- kgeist 4y agoWe have special closed cubicles which aren't assigned to anyone on every floor (I don't know their name in English) which can be booked if you want isolation but they're in such demand that they're often unavailable.
- wreath 4y ago> Office designers on the European continent have come up with an ingenious invention for this: Individual offices! Where did you get this idea from? At best, companies have team rooms that hosts 5-8 people but not individual offices.
- rcarmo 4y agoNeeds someone coming up to you and asking if you have a minute every 30 seconds
- actually_a_dog 4y agoThat's the office dog.
- philote 4y agoAlso, the sound of someone in the next cubicle eating something crispy with their mouth open.
- FerretFred 4y agoTHIS ^^^ !!!!!
- KMag 4y ago... or the person tapping you on your shoulder to inform you that you're wearing headphones, your IM is on do-not-disturb and you're not sitting in your usual desk (but still responding to email).
- smcleod 4y agoOne of the many things I don't miss at all from office work.
- yoyopa 4y agogo dystopia
- sIacker 4y agoI wonder if anyone has proper research on wether this makes you more productive or not.
- dspillett 4y agoNeeds more irritatingly off-rhythm tapping of pens on desk and feet on floor.
- keyle 4y agoImagine the antisoundofcolleagues.com, an active listening noise cancelling website!
- blabberwocky 4y agoThat’s just noise cancelling headphones. But, come to think of it, that should be a slider on this site, to turn down all the other sounds…
- ziml77 4y agoIf only. Noise cancelling headphones can block out droning sounds but are limited to their passive isolation when it comes to voices, especially higher pitched ones. A few years ago I was positioned close to a woman who was always on the phone talking loudly with vendors and there was nothing I could do aside from risking hearing damage to make that disappear. And now, while it's better since I'm not near her anymore, it's still tough when multiple conversations are going on around me all at once.
- byschii 4y agoalso, from a previous post: https://soundsofthepub.com https://soundsofthepub.com
- kieckerjan 4y agoI had a colleague who used to sit across me. Really swell guy, but literally every sip of coffee he took from his mug ended with a smacking sound followed by a contented exhalation. Boy, did he love his coffee! Believe me, I do not have misophonia but that nearly drove me insane.
- remoquete 4y agoOr you'd just loop the menu sound from The Stanley Parable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ8M6ElBk5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ8M6ElBk5s
- dreen 4y agoThis page is proof everyone has different needs. I sometimes struggle to read a single sentence with a single conversation going on in the background.
- anotherhue 4y agoNeeds two dozen slightly desynchronised 'upcoming meeting' alerts playing unmuted. The modern day call to prayer.
- SlackingOff123 4y agoThis[1] was submitted a while back. Might be just what you need. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29561296
- teddyh 4y agoIsn’t “Room tone” really the sound of the HVAC?
- phoronixrly 4y agoThanks, I hadn't realised until now that apparently I have office PTSD...
- devdiary 4y agoI am so going to use it
- boopmaster 4y agoI appreciate the toggle on volume, but it desperately needs some kind of random silence insertion threshold as well, to space out the distance more randomly. Like what if I don't mind hearing a telephone, but it doesn't need to be every 30 seconds? I like this project, dont' get me wrong. I just think each of these components also needs a way to space out the time between cars driving by etc., while presently there is only a volume slider.
- k_sze 4y agoDoesn’t seem to work on iOS?
- jSherz 4y agoI wish it would save your slider levels, e.g. in the URL, so you can bookmark your favourites.
- bufordtwain 4y agoI prefer the background sound of rain, there are a lot of long rain videos on youtube and I am very grateful to the people who post them.
- turing_complete 4y agoDystopian.
- edem 4y agoI don't get this. At literally all the places I've worked were filled with people trying to shut this kind of noise out with headphones...and now we have an app that recreates this horrible noise? Why?
- FerretFred 4y agoDefinitely needs That One Guy who tells "jokes" all day long, in between telling us about his latest trailer/dog/bear weekend escapade. Say, did I ever tell you about ...