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>Facebook was paying a 40 – 50% premium for talent because people didn’t want to work under those conditions You can mitigate some of the noise with a good pai

by tjpnz 4y ago

>Facebook was paying a 40 – 50% premium for talent because people didn’t want to work under those conditions You can mitigate some of the noise with a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. There are far more fundamental reasons for them paying that premium.

ranting-moth 4y ago
Might work for some, but personally my ears and hearing wouldn't cope with a whole day of NC headphones, let alone 5 days a week. Also, sometimes I like having music/noise on but sometimes not.
- robin_reala 4y ago
  Meta want their staff to be in VR goggles 5 days a week, so NC headphones are only the start.
  - ginko 4y ago
    Pretty sure that would be illegal from a workplace health and safety perspective here in Norway.
  - imhoguy 4y ago
    VR? Just plug them into the Matri.. cough!.. Meta at birth. /s
- erik_seaberg 4y ago
  Closed-back over-the-ear headphones are good for this. Active noise cancellation damps repetitive sounds, but a big hunk of plastic damps everything. I think I'm on my third pair of Sennheiser HD280s in 25 years, because the plastic does wear out.
ginko 4y ago
I have yet to experience noise cancelling headphones that actually cancel all sounds like people talking. So far it only seems to work for low frequency background noise. I got some airpods pro for their supposedly great ANC and was really disappointed in how limited it actually was.
- cheshire_cat 4y ago
  FWIW, this is what they now sometimes use at esports events: https://www.acezone.io/ https://www.acezone.io/ They need to be able to block speech so the players don't hear the commentators. I saw a video where they claimed that before there where specialized gaming noise canceling headphones they used headphones for helicopter pilots because anything else didn't have strong enough noise cancelling.
JohnFen 4y ago
> You can mitigate some of the noise with a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. For me, headphones make an open office setup worse, not better. It's not mostly about the noise for me as much as it's about motion. When I wear headphones, I am more "on alert" because I can't tell if people are behind me or not.

by tjpnz 4y ago

ranting-moth 4y ago

Might work for some, but personally my ears and hearing wouldn't cope with a whole day of NC headphones, let alone 5 days a week. Also, sometimes I like having music/noise on but sometimes not.

robin_reala 4y ago
Meta want their staff to be in VR goggles 5 days a week, so NC headphones are only the start.
- ginko 4y ago
  Pretty sure that would be illegal from a workplace health and safety perspective here in Norway.
- imhoguy 4y ago
  VR? Just plug them into the Matri.. cough!.. Meta at birth. /s
erik_seaberg 4y ago
Closed-back over-the-ear headphones are good for this. Active noise cancellation damps repetitive sounds, but a big hunk of plastic damps everything. I think I'm on my third pair of Sennheiser HD280s in 25 years, because the plastic does wear out.

ginko 4y ago

I have yet to experience noise cancelling headphones that actually cancel all sounds like people talking. So far it only seems to work for low frequency background noise. I got some airpods pro for their supposedly great ANC and was really disappointed in how limited it actually was.

cheshire_cat 4y ago
FWIW, this is what they now sometimes use at esports events: https://www.acezone.io/ https://www.acezone.io/ They need to be able to block speech so the players don't hear the commentators. I saw a video where they claimed that before there where specialized gaming noise canceling headphones they used headphones for helicopter pilots because anything else didn't have strong enough noise cancelling.

JohnFen 4y ago

> You can mitigate some of the noise with a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. For me, headphones make an open office setup worse, not better. It's not mostly about the noise for me as much as it's about motion. When I wear headphones, I am more "on alert" because I can't tell if people are behind me or not.