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@knuppelsmurf And the noise canceling one. We all ordered them on company expenses when they moved us to openspace in my previous job. My manager was great and understood.
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@knuppelsmurf Something bluetooth from Sony (I like to spin on my chair, helps relaxing). My colleague had better ones (more blocking) but don't remember the brand. Mine blocks aircondition well and tune down other noises as well. Doesn't get rid of them, but I don't have to crank up the volume that much. I have a button to turn it on and off and it takes low sound out of world and even higher sounds are not that loud suddenly. Didn't notice any white noise, but I'm listening the music most of the time anyway. As the noise cancelling doesn't get rid of everything completely.
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My floor is moving towards the open layout too, mine and 3 other pods are the last ones with walls. We're trying to delay our fate by hanging large (required to be visible) posters and using the whiteboards on the walls for flowcharts.
The open layout doesn't provide any more benefits than the pod layout. Stupid managers!
So they took away our offices in favour of an open layout. This would have been fine if it was just us 3 devs and the manager, but we're sharing a space with network techs, help desk, the manager's secretary and an Accounts department all with little to no separation.
I'm now in the midst of incessant ringing of phones, idle chatter and raucous laughter with nowhere to retreat to for silence; I have no idea how/when I'm going to get any work done now. 😥😞
The organisation I work for is a f**king joke when it comes to management making any kind of logical decision.
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