Sitting close and working
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
One thing I noticed is that everyone appears to be working on laptops. I am lucky enough to work with a docking station where we have a separate keyboard and mouse and a second screen (invaluable for specs and emails). From everything I have learnt working on laptops fulltime, as in your picture, is likely to lead to a sore back (low screen level and smaller keyboard) - is that your experience? Personally I like open plan office environments but with more partitioning than is present in your picture - I have learnt a lot from listening in on conversations and I don't just mean gossip :)
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
I don't think I'd like that. I work in a cubicle environment. With cubes, you have convenient interaction if you need it, and semi-privacy when you need that. I've worked in situations where I had a private office, which was too cut off from the rest of the team. With open desk layouts there's too much distraction to maintain focus. The picture you linked to made me think the constant interaction with coworkers would be very distracting.
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
wow, there's a different between open-space and a can of sardines!!! I would never work there; the noise must be horrible (platic wheels on plastic floor, people talking, .., ); there's no noise reduction system (as far as I can see from the image) No "personal" space for books papers, documentation and other office junk. and working with laptops is not really fun (IMO) if you don't have an extra keyboard and monitor (and at that point, they should supply desktops). I've worked in open space, but we had a "personal" space, I've worked in close offices (lost of space IMO) and now, we're in cubicles, with good personal space and it's made to keep the noise level as low as possible. Good luck.
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
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Wow, that's surprising. I assume your management is familiar with Peopleware[^]? Or at least this[^] JOS article (specifically, point #8)? :sigh: /ravi
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I don't think I'd like that. I work in a cubicle environment. With cubes, you have convenient interaction if you need it, and semi-privacy when you need that. I've worked in situations where I had a private office, which was too cut off from the rest of the team. With open desk layouts there's too much distraction to maintain focus. The picture you linked to made me think the constant interaction with coworkers would be very distracting.
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The picture you linked to made me think the constant interaction with coworkers would be very distracting.
That was my first thought. But I saw people discuss in a very low voice. If more discussions are required, it will happen on separate conference rooms.
Best wishes, Navaneeth
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The hall is quiet in the morning, but not in the afternoon. People always go here and there and few team conduct stand-up meetings. So all bit noisy.
Best wishes, Navaneeth
That's unfortunate. Context switching and loss of concentration is a huge productivity killer, esp. in software development. I'm sure it's still a good place to work, but I'm surprised they haven't divided the floor into smaller work areas separated by partitions to keep the noise level down. /ravi
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N a v a n e e t h wrote:
Do you enjoy such seating?
I could not work in this environment. It's hard enough for me to be productive at all on a laptop but then I need quiet.
John
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That's unfortunate. Context switching and loss of concentration is a huge productivity killer, esp. in software development. I'm sure it's still a good place to work, but I'm surprised they haven't divided the floor into smaller work areas separated by partitions to keep the noise level down. /ravi
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I am surprised too. They are working for a new office at Bangalore and all will be shifted in a month or two. Don't really know how that'd be.
Best wishes, Navaneeth
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
That's usually called Lab setting. I worked like that for a while (except we were not really packed very close to each other) and it was guite good.
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
I've worked kinda like that, except we had desktops the desks where much bigger and there was only 24 people in the room. Noise did irritate me, but after a while I just put my headphones on, figured that if people wanted me they'd just have to poke.
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
N a v a n e e t h wrote:
Do you enjoy such seating?
It looks miserable, reminds me of the school lunchroom. :~
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wow, there's a different between open-space and a can of sardines!!! I would never work there; the noise must be horrible (platic wheels on plastic floor, people talking, .., ); there's no noise reduction system (as far as I can see from the image) No "personal" space for books papers, documentation and other office junk. and working with laptops is not really fun (IMO) if you don't have an extra keyboard and monitor (and at that point, they should supply desktops). I've worked in open space, but we had a "personal" space, I've worked in close offices (lost of space IMO) and now, we're in cubicles, with good personal space and it's made to keep the noise level as low as possible. Good luck.
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and working with laptops is not really fun (IMO) if you don't have an extra keyboard and monitor (and at that point, they should supply desktops).
I disagree. You just need laptops with a docking station. You can undock easily and take your laptop home/on the road/to a conference room/etc and still have all your data available locally. Dragging desktops around is a PITA.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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I joined with my new company[^] and finished the first two days. Got a brand new Dell Latitude E6500[^] laptop and a nice bag with company's logo. Everything went fine so far. The one thing which I am not comfortable yet is the seating. All people sit close together without any cubicles[^]. I found it hard to work (may be I am used with the cubicles). Do you enjoy such seating?
Best wishes, Navaneeth
My company is moving us into "open office space". Granted it is not like what you showed, but I'm a big believer in the need for people to work undisturbed at times. I've worked in open environments and I've worked in offices. I do my best work where I can get away from the crowd and concentrate. There is a need for collaboration at times, but if you are working on software that requires thought and not just typing skills you better be able to get away from the crowd.
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