High-performance employees need quieter work spaces
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#2Why do we think that we need only one kind of workspace that meets all of our criteria? Can't we have an office with a variety of different workspaces that we can move between as our needs change?
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#3> We need to understand high-performance employees based on what they are tasked with and their core principles, not how much they produce, or even worse on standardized personality traits.
So high performance employees are whoever thinks they're important enough to be one?
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#4The source for the claim in the title is:
>My latest anonymous survey shows that 58% of HPEs need more private spaces for problem solving, and 54% of HPEs find their office environment “too distracting.”
Seems kinda weak.
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#5Why do we think that we need only one kind of workspace that meets all of our criteria? Can't we have an office with a variety of different workspaces that we can move between as our needs change?
Can't we have an office with a variety of different workspaces that we can move between as our needs change?
This would require companies to invest in their people beyond "Here's your paycheck, here's your healthcare, be glad we're giving you this much". Granted, some companies do-and some probably do come with a variety of workspaces. I used to work at one, but I don't know how many people would answer in the affirmative if polled how commonplace they expect that sort of workplace to be.
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#6Not much discussion of the anonymous survey - are these "High Performing Employees" Self selecting?
My gut says quiet spaces are a boon to productivity - but why not prove it instead of a research methodology with holes so large I could drive a truck through them.
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#7Why do we think that we need only one kind of workspace that meets all of our criteria? Can't we have an office with a variety of different workspaces that we can move between as our needs change?
Can't we have an office with a variety of different workspaces that we can move between as our needs change? This would require companies to invest in their people beyond "Here's your paycheck, here's your healthcare, be glad we're giving you this much". Granted, some companies do-and some probably do come with a variety of workspaces. I used to work at one, but I don't know how many people would answer in the affirm…
For a long time people could spend their whole career at one company - now not so much, do you think we may be swinging back to that?
From a business perspective its better to keep your high performers as long as you can - pay them what they are worth since someone else will any ways.
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#8The obsession for open plan offices continues to amaze me. Companies that invest huge amounts in staffing and other strategic programmes don't seem to spend much time challenging the default suggestion that 'openness = collaboration'.
This article mentions high performance employees - but most knowledge workers (designers, programmers etc.) that I know all struggle with open plan office environments irrespective of their performance level. If anything, an open plan office is maybe less worrisome to the more executive people I know - their core work processes of communication & meetings are less negatively impacted by the inability to regularly get large blocks of quiet productive space.
Some companies obviously get this need (e.g. FogCreek) but it really feels like sugar consumption or smoking. Once people really interrogate the status quo they are quick to realise how negative it is - but despite this the sub-optimal default approach has an unbelievable amount of momentum.
My condolences to all the 'high performance people' surveyed who are desperately wishing for less disturbed work spaces!
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#9I get page not found?
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#10I get page not found?
Not sure why, here is the original post: https://hackernoon.com/58-of-high-performance-employees-say-...