It all depends on the task you are currently doing and how good your managers are. A good one can understand the need to have a quiet time to concentrate on the task, and another will insists of micromanage you to death. Worked with both types.
Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (Do Not Disturb)
Submitted 11 months ago by Aboel3z@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev
https://blobstreaming.org/why-do-programmers-need-private-offices-with-doors-do-not-disturb/
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uservoid1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve had this happen to me, and even said to the person, “No nevermind! My train of thought is already derailed. Say whatever you were going to say now.”
Phegan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not programming specific, reducing distractions for any worker is a good thing for productivity
markr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The reason our corporate overlords went to open office plans is that they are much less expensive than actual offices. All the other reasons were bullshit to justify enshittification.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Then you throw in a little ADHD
varsock@programming.dev 11 months ago
I always thought about this. What about those with disabilities, like ADHD? Can companies really maintain their “equal opportunity employer” position while stripping privacy in the workplace? That’s an over generalization for moving to an open office.
They will make a few exceptions then at some point say “that’s enough” when all the employees need is less stimulation and more privacy
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, personally, I will never work in an office other than my home ever again.
This still highlights every teams call I get roped into
darkfiremp3@beehaw.org 11 months ago
And that’s why I like working from home
learningduck@programming.dev 11 months ago
Joke’s on me. 100% wfh, but hours of zoom meeting a week.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 11 months ago
So you can lock them in.
If I remember correctly there was a Japanese videogame studio who did that in the past who locked their development team in the office. I can’t find the anymore article though.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
So they can listen to Aphex Twin at max volume with their robot ears.
blindsight@beehaw.org 11 months ago
What a great article. Practical and poetic.
It would have been nice to have a connection made to Flow, since that’s what was being alluded to throughout, but maybe excluding Flow was deliberate in some way I’m missing?
silverbax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or we could just work remotely, which is far more productive.
bugsmith@programming.dev 11 months ago
I particularly enjoyed a recent company meeting that spent considerable time talking about the importance of flow state. It had an awkward pregnant pause when someone (usually very quiet) unmuted to ask, “is the policy to increase the number of days we must spend in our open-plan office kind of undermining this?”. Literally all of our directors just shifted on their seats hoping another would answer that.
Eventually, HR director stated “Not at all, that’s what headphones are for!”
Which was particularly delightful, as our tech director had only 20 minutes before stated how he would like to discourage people sitting in the office in silos with their headphones on.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I know it’s their job, but I’m still amazed how how completely tone deaf HR always sounds when they’re actively contradicting the obvious better option with vapid enthusiasm.
wccrawford@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish that was a panacea. If you work remotely, but they require you to be available via some messenger, they can and will interrupt you just as much as if you were in a physical office with a door.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve got one engineer, only one in the two teams of like ten each that I work with, who doesn’t understand the concept of sending out a short email or IM to ask, “Hey, I’d like to give you a call about XYZ. When would be a good time for you?”
I mean, email is by far the best. It doesn’t demand real time attention and ALSO gives a body of text and attachments to refer back to whenever.
IM also offers these but not as easily organized and searchable.
Phone is worst: there’s no lasting record, no attachments, and you have to drop what you’re doing to participate.
Most of my team realizes these things and prefers email. There are a few who still rely on calls but they at least set up a time for calls.
Only this one guy (a young guy too) thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to call without any announcement or warning, then take up 30-90 minutes of your time with a call to convey information that could have been in a short email or taken care of in literally 5-10 minutes.
He always wants to chat about random shit before getting to the point, then give you a bunch of extra info you don’t even need.
Thus, I’ve started just ignoring his calls when it’s not a good time for me.
If he feels it’s okay to just randomly interrupt, I feel I’m just as justified in refusing to allow said interruption.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Get a reputation for being unreliable, mute notifications, purposefully refuse to respond for an hour…
Untrain your coworkers from relying on you replying with an answer faster than they can find it themselves.
ChucklesMacLeroy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Looking at you Teams Messenger. Oh, how I hate thee…
plz1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Messenger apps have do not disturb for a reason. I know many people feel like using that is wrong if you’re actually working, but if your output is a measure of your actual work, reducing interruptions is the only reliable way to ensure it without working even more hours (for free if you’re salary).
Lmaydev@programming.dev 11 months ago
But you can choose when to reply at least.
mrkite@programming.dev 11 months ago
Another benefit from working from home: I will happily spend my own money on a good chair, keyboard, etc. I spent 20 years working in an office and there’s no way I would’ve ever brought in my own chair during that time… I would’ve had to become the chair police to prevent it from getting “reappropriated”