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wrt comments about distraction on site: Personally I've found open office problems can be mitigated significantly with noise cancelling headphones (as much as
by mellosouls 4y ago
wrt comments about distraction on site:
Personally I've found open office problems can be mitigated significantly with noise cancelling headphones (as much as anything to allow me to play music/white noise at a lower, sustainable volume) and a baseball cap for visual focus for the times I need that.
I think having separate shared "quiet" offices is the best way to offer an occasional focused refuge for anybody who needs them.
Dedicated, single person private offices seem anti social and about status normally, though they may be useful to sandbox off the noisy meeting-class of workers.
For an individual to need one 8 hours a day for, say, coding indicates they are on a burn out path.
- mantas 4y agoPrivate office is anti-social, yet nose cancelling headphones with a baseball cap is not?
- mellosouls 4y agoNo, anything full time that silos is anti social. Cutting off the outside world is a useful facility in temporary measures. If the cap and headphones were full time they would be anti social too. They are for temporary periods as needed. I already allowed for private offices in limited time slots, no need for more than that for most jobs.
- mantas 4y agoPrivate office with open doors is pretty social. Meeting rooms are for collab. And for most jobs there’s no need for collab outside of limited time slots. If you’re not doing focused work, not doing group work and you’re fine to get disrupted… You could head home as well.