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Re:Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan off... by jpindar on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:47PM (#15350353)
One of these things is not like the others. People should be able to control talking (assuming they know it bothers the people around them).
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Re:Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan off... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:43PM (#15350957)
I struggled to come up with things that, to me, would be very strange to not be able to control anymore.

I know there are medical conditions that prevent you from controlling all three - I've had coughs bad enough that I couldn't help it, and there are definitely bowel conditions that mean your sphincter isn't 100% reliable, and there is Tourette's and assorted mental conditions that basically make it difficult to impossible to control your speech.

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Re:Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan off... by gertef on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:59PM (#15350490)
People should be able to control all of them, at least for timespans of a few seconds.
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Re:Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan off... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:44PM (#15350963)
Unless they've got medical conditions, which some people do.
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