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CEOs Want Their Offices Back

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Re: CEOs Want Their Offices Back

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Post by Deinos »

solnyshok wrote: post #16
coffeeski wrote: post #8

Why do CEO's think they're alone in the need for quiet spaces where they can focus? Sure some people can work in the noisy space where interruptions abound. The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU. I'd rather have a Cube farm, but better yet, a small tiny phone booth as an office.

careful what you wish for. I also like silence. But I'd rather use noise cancelling headphones than work in the booth among thousands other booths.

I appreciate a nice pair of noise-cancelling headphones, but they tend to cause pain and irritation when worn for long periods of time.

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Post by rublev »

dralley wrote: post #25
coffeeski wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would take a 10% paycut to have a small office that fits 2 monitors, a filing cabinet and some pictures, rather then dealing with constant clattering of the guy behind me that decided converting a type writer into a digital keyboard was a good idea.

Brown-type switches are OK, it's the blue-type keys that are problematic.

I used to work in a room with over 300 Model M's. I think I have PTSD from it. Machine gun fire from 9am til 5pm.

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Post by teemwerk »

dralley wrote: post #25
coffeeski wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would take a 10% paycut to have a small office that fits 2 monitors, a filing cabinet and some pictures, rather then dealing with constant clattering of the guy behind me that decided converting a type writer into a digital keyboard was a good idea.

Brown-type switches are OK, it's the blue-type keys that are problematic.

Yeah, but he's talking about the conversion kits to digitize input on a typewriter. That's next level annoying.

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Post by maxxxxx »

ronnier wrote: post #18
coffeeski wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would take a 10% paycut to have a small office that fits 2 monitors, a filing cabinet and some pictures, rather then dealing with constant clattering of the guy behind me that decided converting a type writer into a digital keyboard was a good idea.

The mechanical keyboard people in open offices bother me.

I recently got one and I admit it's really loud. But this shouldn't be an issue in a decent workplace. I have several guys near me who have loud voices and talk a lot. That's worse than a loud keyboard. Open office plans are the problem, not keyboards or loud people.

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Post by walshemj »

andrewingram wrote: post #5

Curiously, in my experience it's been senior management (including CEOs) who've fought for open plan offices in the first place. Cost benefits aside, they do wax lyrical about all the reason why open plan is great.

Because they have allowed tail functions like HR and Building Services to set company policy with no thought to the wider effect on the company. Aka I got my bonus and I don't care if I have F%$Ked up the company

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Post by tlrobinson »

philip1209 wrote: post #24

Individual contributors want private offices. Companies want "openness and collaboration". As I've been at WeWorks lately, I've noticed that they have all glass walls on the offices. This means that everybody has natural light and a sense of openness, but with a locking door and quiet. A more general question to people in such all-glass private offices - is it the best of both worlds? Or, is more privacy needed than…

They make glass that can be turned opaque electronically. That's probably ideal (albeit more expensive)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass

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Post by ferongr »

markatkinson wrote: post #28
dralley wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brown-type switches are OK, it's the blue-type keys that are problematic.

I was told my brown switches were horrendous :(

Learning to type without bottoming out not only will mostly elliminate the noise of brown switches but also reduce the shock tranmitted to the fingers. Ever since I stopped bottoming out (except for the spacebar and pinky-operated backspace) my typing comfort went up a lot.

Re: CEOs Want Their Offices Back

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Post by paulgb »

snakeanus wrote: post #22
avemg wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this not just stealing their work?

How is it "stealing"?

I'm not here to defend it, but as a paying digital subscriber to WSJ (and other papers), this link is useful! WSJ signed me out (they often do), and to sign in again I have to re-enable JavaScript which means their site gets slower and the text bounces all over as things load. I'm happy to pay for quality content but news sites have to stop degrading the digital experience if they want me to keep forking over $30/month.

Edit: for science, I enabled JavaScript and loaded the WSJ page with a cold cache. The text jumped 3 times over the 22 seconds it took to fully load the page.

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