Same. My productivity is awful in an office because we had an ‘open office’ and it was nothing but distractions and noise all day long. Not to mention folks coming up to you and asking you to do stuff verbally, which never got documented and therefore did not count as ‘productive’ activity.
at home everything is an email so I have a record of things I do that looks 10x bigger than I did in the office.
Yeah that is a good point, we also have an open office. I imagine if there were more separation with individual or team offices it would be a lot easier to work there.
it would, but people who design offices are buzzword lemmings who follow trends and don’t care about worker productivity objectively.
my first office had big tall cubes and it was gloriously quiet. we are now on our third office, but since only like 20 people come in on any day, it’s much quieter than having 50-80 people, half of whom are blabbing with each other or on the phone and everyone in 30 ft of them can hear their convo.
Same. My productivity is awful in an office because we had an ‘open office’ and it was nothing but distractions and noise all day long. Not to mention folks coming up to you and asking you to do stuff verbally, which never got documented and therefore did not count as ‘productive’ activity.
at home everything is an email so I have a record of things I do that looks 10x bigger than I did in the office.
Yeah that is a good point, we also have an open office. I imagine if there were more separation with individual or team offices it would be a lot easier to work there.
it would, but people who design offices are buzzword lemmings who follow trends and don’t care about worker productivity objectively.
my first office had big tall cubes and it was gloriously quiet. we are now on our third office, but since only like 20 people come in on any day, it’s much quieter than having 50-80 people, half of whom are blabbing with each other or on the phone and everyone in 30 ft of them can hear their convo.