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Re:The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration by ryandrake on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @01:31PM (#17452083)
I agree with what you said in principle but I was going for a practical solution rather than an ideal one.
Re:The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration by mlthoughts2018 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @02:17PM (#17452495)
So was I. Above all else, capitulating to change the debate into a question of which type of headphones to wear is not practical, because it doesn’t address the underlying negative health effects. To qualify as “practical” an idea would first have to at least meet the criteria of alleviating the physical disergonomy of the situation, or at least contribute to that over the long term. Anything which proposes to just “put up with it” in some way or another would be as impractical as possible, because not putting up with it is the sole property required for anything to count as a productive approach.