Re:Poor Man’s Bose – Open Office and on the Go Noise Control
by bunderbunder on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:00PM
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Yeah, and, at least for me, people's attempts to try and be respectful of each other in an open office type situation make it worse instead of better. Talking in hushed tones makes the speech harder to understand, which makes the lizard brain work even harder.
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Re:Poor Man’s Bose – Open Office and on the Go Noise Control
by MandieD on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:36AM
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Working in an open office where the main language is your native language: you spend some cognitive energy tuning it out.
Working in an open office where the main language is a language that you understand well, but not natively (my every day life in Germany): you spend a ton of cognitive energy tuning it out, because your lizard brain insists on having that surrounding speech parsed first, just in case it has something to do with your work, because every so often, it absolutely does.
Working in an open office where you have absolutely no comprehension of the language (two weeks in Seoul): amazingly productive, because the lizard brain doesn't even bother.