This is me at work… open floor plan desks are exhausting, more than the physical labor I inadvertently do for like half the day. I actually prefer the physical moving around bit; I don’t have to pretend and fail anyway to keep the social mask on just in case someone says something to me.
I get in trouble a lot for wearing my earbuds and not hearing someone trying to get my attention. So now I just wear them so people assume I can’t hear them and only respond to the people I have to.
I think there is something completely unnatural about sitting in a open office and trying to do work. Its like the worst environment you can think of to do work in.
I’m declining every request for a social gathering at the office and I insist on working from home. I’m lucky this works for my company, but there are more than enough examples of managers that will rather die than accept people not being able to work in such an environment.
This is me at work… open floor plan desks are exhausting, more than the physical labor I inadvertently do for like half the day. I actually prefer the physical moving around bit; I don’t have to pretend and fail anyway to keep the social mask on just in case someone says something to me.
I get in trouble a lot for wearing my earbuds and not hearing someone trying to get my attention. So now I just wear them so people assume I can’t hear them and only respond to the people I have to.
I think there is something completely unnatural about sitting in a open office and trying to do work. Its like the worst environment you can think of to do work in.
I’m declining every request for a social gathering at the office and I insist on working from home. I’m lucky this works for my company, but there are more than enough examples of managers that will rather die than accept people not being able to work in such an environment.