Is the open office layout dead?

Re:Is the open office layout dead? by tome on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:08AM (#15062769)

> "According to a study on the cost of interrupted work, a typical office worker is interrupted every 11 minutes. Even worse, people often take up to 25 minutes to refocus on the original task."

So they're interrupted more frequently that the time it takes to refocus and therefore never complete any task?

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by coldtea on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:58AM (#15063880)

>So they're interrupted more frequently that the time it takes to refocus and therefore never complete any task?

No, they just never complete any task while FOCUSED.

They still complete tasks, but distracted, and thus in a sub-par and slower way.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by majewsky on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:00AM (#15062998)

Sounds about right to me. /s

More seriously though, that "every 11 minutes" figure is most likely an average, so there will be intervals much longer than that.

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Re:Is the open office layout dead? by salvar on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:53AM (#15062964)

Did you miss the word 'often' in there?

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