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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by fetbaffe on Monday September 25, 2017 @07:45AM (#15329605)
Optimal size of team in one room is about 2 - 3 members. Any outside disturbance is likely to affect all team members.

Trying to explain this to management can be very frustrating because they don't understand that coding is a focus intense task. And it does not matter if you cite research. Coincidentally, management usually have their own rooms.

Some links in Swedish with Google Translate

Worse working environment in open office landscape (2014) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

Opening office landscapes causes stress (2015) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

Open office gives higher sick leave (2008) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

Opening office landscapes leads to overtime (2014) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by Cthulhu_ on Monday September 25, 2017 @08:26AM (#15329819)
[M]any sparrows died from exhaustion; citizens would bang pots and pans so that sparrows would not have the chance to rest on tree branches and would fall dead from the sky - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
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