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Why is wearing headphones not an option? Just curious.
I'm not 30 yet and my headphone use in open plan offices has contributed to tinnitus. To be effective, the music has to completely drown out conversations. It's unhealthy.
Why is wearing headphones not an option?
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> Microsoft in 1990s was one of the few companies that deliberately provided private offices with a door for every programmer. However, that ideology later morphed into putting 2 or more developers to share one room and then relocating a large group onto open floor plans[1]. It shows that even a company that originally prided itself on private offices eventually deviated towards open offices. (They still have lots of…
>but it's hardly a glowing recommendation for open offices. To be clear, I'm not "recommending" open offices. Microsoft still has private offices and I believe it's still the majority configuration of their Seattle campus (MS employee can chime in to confirm this.) >We're talking about private offices for engineers who are on the maker schedule, where interruptions are harmful. The Intel programmers don't have privat…
I know at least two of those four companies have very liberal working policies.
If I want to work on a problem with a team member we can take over a meeting room for a few days.
If I want to work from home for a couple of days that's ok as well.
Sometimes I'll go work from a cafe.
Hell, sometimes I'll have an intense meeting then play a couple of hours of table tennis to relax.
Basically if I want quiet time I can easily get it. It's not really like that for most software development jobs at normal companies.