Re:Open offices are bad for us
by hvidgaard on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @12:06PM
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They may work when people have enough work diciplin to not interrupt with irrelevant things. Which it looks like they can manage in the pictures. But when you have a constant stream of people interrupting with things that should just have been an email or slack message, it kills productivity.
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Email and slack are interruptive.
> Email and slack are interruptive.
Only if you "decide" to be informed immediately when an email/message comes.
While it works to decide to check email only 2-3 times a day, it doesn't work so well with IM. IM discussions are typically much faster and there's a big risk you miss out on giving your POV before everyone has moved on, if you only check it every now and then.
If everyone moved on, was it really important to give your input anyway?
With IM you can turn it off if you need to focus, and turn it on when you are doing busy work anyway.