I started my career working at a team room, which was exclusive for the technical people and had no more than 7 people at its peak.

I started my career working at a team room, which was exclusive for the technical people and had no more than 7 people at its peak. Then progressively went from open-office to open-office. And man, how I hate those. I can't get focus, which forces me to bring the deep-thinking work home, proceeding on a two-shift day, similar to what Paul Graham describes on the "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" essay ( http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html ). Even simple things like sending a page-length email took more time than needed, and were high frustrating. Yet, recently I've been working on a company which only have team rooms. I'm on a 3 persons' room, but the rooms vary from 1 to 6 persons. Furthermore they have lots of perforated plates on ceilings and rooms are (mostly) sound isolated from adjacent ones by a foam-like thing they stuff between the division separations. When I started here I just had that -wow- moment. I couldn't believe I was actually doing software design, reading documentation and others immerse thinking tasks during normal work time. No need to carry stuff home no more. Did I mentioned already how I hate open-offices? :)

Posted by father_of_two on Apr 19, 2015, 8:04 PM

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