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Working in an overcrowded cubicle office space
Dool | Dec 7 2006
Hello all, I work within a large multinational institution. Several of our divisions have now all moved into one large open office space in a series of cubicles. My question is: Can anyone offer any tips to encourage staff to keep their noise levels down and appreciate people around them. Everyone will be in this area by Monday and I am pre-empting a chaotic mess, particularly since we have people from more than a dozen cultures packed in together. Just wondering if any one has any best practices for dealing with this? I've got some ideas but wondered if there were any others before I recommend them to the incoming swarm?? Cheers, Dool 9 Comments
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 I tend to think that...Submitted by emory on December 8, 2006 - 10:33pm.
I tend to think that noise-canceling headphones are one part cool and one part BS. The premise is neat, but the effect is grating to me. But I love my Shure e2cs, which are more isolating than the Bose noise canceling cans a coworker has. There really is no way to stay super sane in a cube farm. I guess I am lucky in that in my line of work I don't want/need quiet -- that is rare. My team is usually chattering throughout the day. » POSTED IN:
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