{"id":8542,"date":"2016-10-26T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T21:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2016-12-02T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T18:43:25","slug":"noisy-coworkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2016\/10\/26\/noisy-coworkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisy Coworkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working in a cube farm, my ears perked up to an NPR story about how other people are distracting.<\/p>\n

“In general, if a sound is\u00c2\u00a0coming from another person, it’s much more disturbing than when it’s coming from a machine,” Alan Hedge at Cornell says, because, as social beings, humans are attuned to man-made sounds<\/a>. He says overheard conversations, as well as high-pitched and intermittent noises, also draw attention away from tasks at hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, open offices are worse. We are not there. (Yet!) And the plans for filling in more spaces are not leveraging open offices.<\/p>\n

I have heard many of these like the coughing, sneezing, fingernail clippers, bizarre ringtones, and especially conversations. I have been the culprit for coughing, sneezing, and very loud conversations. Pretty sure I am noisier than most of those around me.<\/p>\n

\"fidget_cube_midnight_grande\"The new workstation keyboards in the cubefarm\u00c2\u00a0are much louder than the prior ones. I can hear these when before I could not. Of course, the former coworker who brought his own Logitech to work was known for his very loud typing. I’d thought it was just him. Nope. I now know it always\u00c2\u00a0was the keyboard.<\/p>\n

The Fidget Cube<\/a> pictured right is designed to allow people to fidget without clicking their pens. That funny enough is not a problem I’ve had to hear.<\/p>\n

We do so much stuff over email or tickets or chat that phone calls are not very common. If I get one, then it almost certainly is a robocall or a marketer or follow-up to\u00c2\u00a0post conference spam<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0because I deleted the emails.<\/p>\n

Great\u00c2\u00a0headphones are how I hide from these distractions. There are fewer and fewer places to hide from others as the organization grows.<\/p>\n

The interesting thing is these things kill productivity. They distract us from getting work done. Though, at the same time, when I overhear a conversation that I feel the need to contribute, I have involved myself and helping resolve the situation. Maybe the coworker who left lozenges on my desk was being helpful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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