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Originally Posted by pwalker8
This difference in the way people prefer to interact is pretty far reaching. In corporate America, there is a movement to do away with offices (except for the Execs, of course) and cubes and have open work areas without assigned seating. The idea appeals a lot to extroverts who spend all their time jawing in meetings and smoozing. Not so much to introverts who need quiet to get work done.
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Yeah I work in an open plan office. I do have my own desk but it's an open "pod" rather than a cubicle. I raised the issue of noise a few years ago (just tentatively pointed out that maybe folks didn't realise how much their voices can carry) and I was told that we didn't want to kill the "atmosphere" of a happy office and maybe I should wear headphones if I want to focus on something.
And yet the manager who told me this, over from HQ visiting for a few days, took up one of the few meeting rooms as his office while he was here.