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When an industry recruits 22 year old men, is it surprising when the workplace resembles a barracks?
What would the workplace resemble if they were hiring 22 year old females? Can you give an answer with a straight face that doesn't patronize 50+% of the world population?
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Active noise cancelling is bad. Headphones in general are not.
No. You're going to have to expand on that. Active noise cancelling means there is less sound reaching your ears . It works by -- quite literally -- cancelling the sound waves. Insert "now you're thinking" meme image: Sound can't hurt your ears If it doesn't exist
I really liked this article. A lot of the things mentioned seem to be necessary because the author has “passing privilege”, but some are necessary due to poor management practices. Stand ups and in person meetings are two spots where this frequently happens. I’ve inherited teams where everyone needs to stand during standup, or worse, where they do the push-up/plank thing if you want to speak. It shouldn’t take a grea…
> they do the push-up/plank thing if you want to speak It never ceases to amaze me that businesses do this kind of thing (and many more besides) and still succeed. The induced drag from from stupid management practices is not that different from using crappy technology.
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Well. Using headphones all day damages our hearing... We work better without constant distractions. We are pretty expensive to employ and then use at 50% potential.
1. Does using headphones damage our hearing? I am aware that using certain kinds of open earphones are associated with hearing loss but my understanding was that this had more to do with how high the volume needs to be to drown out the noise. Proper IEMs and noise cancelling headphones should definitely not suffer from that issue. 2. 50% potential is a bold claim, but even if that were true it may still be economical…
I'll also point out that the folks advocating for "collaborative" offices generally make "bold claims" with little evidence (or even argument, at times) to substantiate.
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I don't know if you realize what you've done here. They said accommodate as far as is necessary . Necessary literally means that it is needed . There is a statement of correctness built into the word. And you are objecting that necessary is needed? As in, wait wait a moment here. I think we should do less than necessary. Arguing where to draw that line is one thing. But as worded, you appear to be advocating below mi…
You've misread me. The question is as follows: how much accommodation should be made for an employee with a disability? The answer is clearly not As much as is necessary to enable the employment of that person, regardless of the cost or circumstance . pjc50 appeared to be suggesting exactly this answer, hence my reply.
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No. You're going to have to expand on that. Active noise cancelling means there is less sound reaching your ears . It works by -- quite literally -- cancelling the sound waves. Insert "now you're thinking" meme image: Sound can't hurt your ears If it doesn't exist
Active noise canceling adds sound pressure. It doesn’t stop outside sound, it adds an inverse sound to prevent your perception of sound.
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What would the workplace resemble if they were hiring 22 year old females? Can you give an answer with a straight face that doesn't patronize 50+% of the world population?
Well, like 22 year old men have certain tendencies that will prevail (e.g. a bro office culture), the same way a company of 22 year old females will have other tendencies that will prevail. People not understanding statistics doesn't mean there are not some dominant traits in each group, even if they are not shared by all members of the group -- nor that it is patronizing to mention them (as if someone making a gener…
... Such as?
Btw, the issue isn't really "the tendencies 22 year old men" so much as it is people hiring for friends and drinking buddies instead of hiring for employees and colleagues
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Well. Using headphones all day damages our hearing... We work better without constant distractions. We are pretty expensive to employ and then use at 50% potential.
Get a pair of musician's earplugs. They're wonderful. You can layer them with closed back headphones to get very robust silent isolation at a reasonable price. You can also get ear pieces molded by an audiologist for some high end earbuds that will block out sound almost completely even if you're not playing any sound.
That one resonated a lot. It looks to me like in a lot of micromanaged places people need to over-explain why they need to Work From Home or leave early or take a sick day. I have struggled with that also but for the last couple of months I have decided to state the fact without any justification. For example "I will leave at 2PM today" or "I'm taking a sick day today".
If you (over)justify yourself it sounds like you don't have a good enough reason to start with. And on top of that I'm an adult and don't need to justify myself for those type of things.
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> they do the push-up/plank thing if you want to speak I don't know what that specific practice is, and I think I really really don't want to know.
You have to plank while speaking, in order to motivate people to speak succinctly. Obviously disadvantages people who aren’t physically fit as they literally don’t get to contribute as much!