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The open office revolution needs to die. I don't like wearing headphones all day, but I also don't like hearing 30 people's conversations either. I had a (old) guy that used to sit in my area who would argue with his manager in person and argue (loudly) with everyone he was on the phone with (including his wife). He got moved a couple of months ago and there were no tears shed.
Did he get moved to a smaller room? If so, you have your strategy.
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So everyone should just adhere to how you want the world to be? yeah, that makes sense. I'm not asking anyone to change what they are doing. I'm asking them to stfu and do their job. They are the ones interrupting me, and getting into my business. Your the one asking people to change themselves to conform to your preferences.
Actually, no. You're asking them to behave in the way you prefer. You see, humans aren't naturally driven to be quiet - we're a social animal. We have inbuilt need to communicate, and we're not built to sit in little boxes and stare at a screen in quiet all day. You're asking others to do that though, rather than embrace the natural way our minds prefer to work for many of us. You can use ear plugs, listen to white n…
Study after study has shown that humans work better with less distractions, especially with office-type jobs (focus/thinking oriented). You may like it, and thats fine. Your also rounding back to my first point. It may be "natural" for us to talk, but that doesn't make it better. Glasses aren't "natural", but they sure help me out.
Additionally: noise-canceling headphones have been shown to cause long-term issues, and not everyone can use them.
> You aren't at their mercy, no more than they are at yours.
Simply untrue. I'm not injecting my quiet onto them. They are injecting their noise onto me. If I punched someone in the face everyday, would you say they are being rude by trying to get me to stop? They are, after all, hampering the "natural" urge for human violence.
The problem with open office plans is that it takes just one noisy person to spoil it for everybody. If managed carefully and actively, they can work -- it just takes an manager willing to correct bad behavior or send sick people home. Where I work, I have a budding tupperware percussionist, three imminent victims of whooping cough, some parents managing high-maintenance offspring over cell phones, and one guy who co…
If you have to outlaw default human behavior for a system to 'work' then it doesn't work
Loud people disrupt the quiet people, and quiet people can't work with loud people around. Either kind of behaviour makes the system not work.
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Can I ask you which model you did buy? I am in the process of doing precisely the same and wondering if their acrylic models are isolating enough. Silicon apparently isolates better but requires more maintenance, makes them more difficult to insert and remove, and I'm not fully convinced I should go for a Music Two sound-wise. Thanks a bunch!
I bought the Custom Art Music One that I linked to in the above post. Most of the reviews I'd read agreed that it was an insanely good deal considering the quality-per-dollar ratio. And I don't regret it. Maintenance: there's a little wire loop with a plastic handle included in the pelican case it ships with, lets you clean wax out of the canal. Tip: if you think one of your headphones is dead, just clean the wax out…
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I have ADHD, meaning that open office is great to distract me... But also, one of the symptons of ADHD, with the "H" there, is that people must move, in my particular case one of the things I tend to do is tap my nails on the desk, use tupperware as drums, or if a actual musical instrument is nearby, even if I dunno how to play it, I play it. So, ADHD person in open office not only has terrible productivity due to ot…
I wonder if something like this would help: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antsylabs/fidget-cube-a...
My favourite home/office made finger toys are when you take 2 of the little plastic protectors off of the ports of screencards (and/or cables). They're a great size to stick your fingers a bit into and they usually fit inside each other nicely (it's ok if they're loose, but really great if they stick nicely). They're pretty durable too, unless if you play too hard they can last a very long time.