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The problem may be down to their poor conversations. We have both wide ranging general knowledge and focused technical conversations in my office involving gro
by Offler 14y ago
The problem may be down to their poor conversations.
We have both wide ranging general knowledge and focused technical conversations in my office involving groups of people and I would be sad to lose that.
Talk about something that can deliver value or engage people and then the conversations are worthwhile.
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Sarah Houghton 10 Dec 12
The ironic thing is that as a librarian, I can tell you that for the last decade (at least) most libraries don’t enforce “library silence.” We encourage people to talk, to collaborate, to discuss. As long as you’re not annoying the hell out of the people around you, we encourage a low level of conversation and noise.
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- manuelflara 14y agoAt my old company, before we moved into a bigger, modern space where all developers fit in the same huge room, we were all split into 3 or 4 different spaces. At first I was in this room with another 8-10 developers. We would have conversations through the day. Sometimes technical but offtopic, sometimes about our infrastructure (someone helping someone else fix a bug) and sometimes just plain offtopic/fun. For some reason I moved to a different room with different developers around me. Soon, I learned that that whole "talk normally while people beside you are working" thing wasn't the norm there, so I stopped, and it was quite a "library rules" place to work, to describe it using the article's words. Now, I was sad to lose all those conversations, but I became a heck of a lot more productive.