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I prefer a loud workplace to a quiet one. A single noise grabs your attention in a quiet workplace. In a loud one, it all just becomes background noise and is
by trentmb 14y ago
I prefer a loud workplace to a quiet one.
A single noise grabs your attention in a quiet workplace.
In a loud one, it all just becomes background noise and is easy to ignore.
- mcgwiz 14y agoI think it's fair to say an environment that is so quiet you can hear a pin drop (i.e. ideal movie theater quiet) is not going to be welcome by most, for the reason you cited. But the same effect can occur in a noisy place as well, if a single individual is sporadically more noisy than the background noise. So it's more about achieving some constant noise level, above which no sporadic noises rise. IMHO, the "library/whisper quiet" rule achieves this.
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- jasonfried 14y agoSilence is not the same as quiet. Our office isn't silent. It's softly quiet.
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- stevewillows 14y agoHow did you go about starting a culture of library rules though? Did it naturally start like that or was there a defining moment where it was addressed?
- rhizome 14y agoWherever I've worked, no matter how quiet it's been, keyboards still make noise.
- Cthulhu_ 14y agoAnd the best keyboards are also the noisiest, :p.
- smspence 14y agoThe problem for me is that it NEVER just becomes background noise that I can ignore. It is just constant, never-ending distraction that significantly reduces my productivity.