The Solution for Open Office Frustration
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Re: The Solution for Open Office Frustration
#2Based entirely on the title, I thought i was about to read about markdown and/or google docs.
Since it's the other kind of open office, I suggest noise-cancelling headphones and the freedom to publicly shame loud eaters without reprisal.
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#3The best solution is to never even use open office layouts.
Realistically, though, interruptions happen when they are unplanned. Need many meetings? Set the time slots and schedules.
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#4There's no solution here. Red lights, seriously?
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#5This does nothing about being visible from behind, nor the insane surveillance culture that programmers have to endure these days.
It seems like another case of engineering types addressing the symptom (noise) rather than the underlying problem, which is the low social status that got programmers into open plan cattle pens in the first place.
Re: The Solution for Open Office Frustration
#6Based entirely on the title, I thought i was about to read about markdown and/or google docs. Since it's the other kind of open office, I suggest noise-cancelling headphones and the freedom to publicly shame loud eaters without reprisal.
That reminds me of the novel jPod. Anybody who brought McDonalds (also known as 'the taint') into the office was shunned for the day.
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#7I've got an amazing idea.
Go away from open plan offices. I'm really baffled that that wasn't one of the solutions in the article. Red and Green coloured cubes? Lights? Ugly attempts to mask the symptoms, rather than fix the real problem: Open plan offices suck for productivity.
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#8Based entirely on the title, I thought i was about to read about markdown and/or google docs. Since it's the other kind of open office, I suggest noise-cancelling headphones and the freedom to publicly shame loud eaters without reprisal.
That reminds me of the novel jPod. Anybody who brought McDonalds (also known as 'the taint') into the office was shunned for the day.
reheating fish in a microwave is another classic horror.
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#9The solution for open plans offices is to give everyone a real office.
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#10I thought mainstream media was finally going to recommend OpenOffice users to move to LibreOffice.