that’s wild to hear, cubicles sound great compared to the boiler rooms we have now
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bebabalula@feddit.dk 4 days ago
I’ve had a couple of months in a cubicle ones and I found it kinda eerie. I think it’s because it’s very clear that we were 20 people in the same office each of us pretending to be alone. I’d much rather have a shared office space with, like, 10 people…
SethW@lemmy.world 4 days ago
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 4 days ago
Are you sure? If you’ve tried it fine but it you’ve not tried it…woof
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
in the 2000s I started a contract with 200 other cubicle workers (software support), but they decided at some point to cut it down to 20… so after a few months it was a cube wasteland with a core of ubercubes - each with 4-10 devboxes and displays for ad-hoc test environments… and it was like that for 8 months then we all got the ‘we’re not eliminating your positions, but the jobs are going to New Mexico, you want to move to Albuquerque right?’ axe.
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Shared office is even worse, everyone is loud, you’re missing the attenuation you had in your cubicle. Impossible to do phone calls / video calls without noise canceling headphones and good noise filtering. Ans when you’re at home trying to talk to someone on-site, you can hear three other colleagues chatting in the background. Hate this shit with a passion
bebabalula@feddit.dk 4 days ago
Where I’m at now we have those phone booth-style boxes for (video-)calls. They are pretty horrible but a big improvement over having people making calls in the shared space.
shane@feddit.nl 4 days ago
It depends on the type of work and the people involved.
I worked in a team of developers and everyone who visited us commented how quiet it was…
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I work with network engineers and especially the seniors are loud af