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This title is wrong, the real title is better. You don't like open floor. I love it. I can get in the flow and I have my colleagues here with which I can joke/i
by duiker101 13y ago
This title is wrong, the real title is better. You don't like open floor. I love it. I can get in the flow and I have my colleagues here with which I can joke/interact/discuss. I think being isolated would make me feel bad. I think that the most important factor here is that people need to know how to behave on open floors. You can be distracted by a ringing phone everywhere.
- mgkimsal 13y ago"You can be distracted by a ringing phone everywhere." It's harder to be distracted by 5 ringing phones in a private office.
- duiker101 13y agoThat is true but I think that most people use headphones. Personally I made a habit of wearing them even when I am not listening to anything. They are not noise cancelling but it help to not listen to anything that is "out of scope". But obviously you can't ignore your own phone.
- pessimizer 13y agoMost people who don't have offices use headphones, yes. If you don't like to wear headphones all day, that's another reason why you're uncomfortable in an open office.
- mgkimsal 13y agoYou can develop your own process for filtering out your own phone - vibrate, go to vmail, vmail routed to email with label alerts, etc. "to not listen to anything that is "out of scope"" Doors work wonders too, and don't end up necessarily causing physical pain after a while, some headphones can.