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We are moving offices this week and I am going from a 8 people open-plan office to a 3 person shared office. I'll see how it goes in comparison.
Normally when I want privacy I put my headphones on. A busy office doesn't interrupt or bother me, it is the constant meeting requests that are the real interruptions.
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Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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I don't know how 3 people in an office will work, but I loved 2 people in an office, provided facilities can keep the temperature fluctuations down. They constructed our office out of an open area and left all of the heating and cooling the same. This led to temperature fluctuations of as much as 20 degrees in a matter of minutes. There was this odd phenomenon that would occur where my feet would be cold and my head would be burning up. Other than that, it was great as I was given a full sized white board of my own as was my officemate. I was even allowed to configure where my shelves were such that I was able to keep all of my programming/reference books right next to my chair underneath the whiteboard.
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Try to work in your garden. 
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Laptop screens are still not good enough in sunlight. A shame, otherwise I would work outdoors more.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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The screen of my Sony laptop, even if reflecting, is visible enough outdoors at max brightness (not in full sunlight).
Anyway, if you work in your home garden, you might even wire a huge monitor and move it in and out at morning and evening.
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I do plenty of design work and there is no screen I've seen that does not get washed out outdoors. You can still use them for reading or coding but not for design work.
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Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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The new Organic LED monitors can work well outside.
Sony OLED TV[^]
Paul Watson wrote: I do plenty of design work and there is no screen I've seen that does not get washed out outdoors. You can still use them for reading or coding but not for design work.
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Dario Solera wrote: Try to work in your garden.
I find my work is affected by too many bugs. 
Marc
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Hopefully they won't get inside your code but just inside your notebook.
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We used to rent a house on the seaside and I set up a wireless router so I could sit down by the water and do emails, support, write some code etc etc. I also did it form a hammock close by as well.
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
- David Ogilvy
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I want to work for myself and prefer not to deal with office politics and morons, privacy is not the reason at all.
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Pawel Krakowiak wrote: prefer not to deal with office politics and morons
While I appreciate that, it is also a fun keeping those junk stuff away when they intrude into our territory.
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I don't find it to be any fun at all. Just a hassle holding companies back.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Working in any type of a busy office is a nightmare.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive)
{
cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}
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And if you are one of those unlucky finding yourself amidst fish-mongers yelling at the top of the pitch, the situation is a total mess.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Hamed Mosavi wrote: Working in any type of a busy office is a nightmare.
Yeap u r right, most of classic code i have written when almost no body in office and there is pin drop silence 
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Bah - the last time I worked in a silent place was 8 years ago when I worked from home and still was single.
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I sit in a fairly open cube arrangement that's co-located with a call center. Constant chatter along with people yelling across the room goes on all day long. Furthermore, we're in a basement...no windows in sight. We're not allowed to possess flash drives, cell phones, MP3 players or any other recordable device in this office. So, headphones are out. The only white noise comes from a small portable fan that has to run full-tilt because the temperature hovers around 80 degrees most days down here. Right now, I can hear at least 12 other people talking...so you can imagine that productivity is never too high. The brain-dead management evidently sees no issues... naturally.
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Bob1763b wrote: temperature hovers around 80
Bob1763b wrote: co-located with a call center
Bob1763b wrote: now, I can hear at least 12 other people talking
What do the management expect any programmer human being to do in such a hell?
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive)
{
cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}
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Well, I for one am working on a couple of certifications right now. As soon as those are complete, I'm pulling the rip cord on this position and heading for greener (and hopefully cooler and sunnier) pastures.
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I really wish you a good luck.
I'm pretty sure everyone there is thinking about a change. If the management doesn't think soon enough, others will solve the issue themselves. That's what I call a disaster for their project.
// "In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
while (I_am_alive)
{
cout<<"I love to do more than just programming.";
}
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There are still companies which provide a room with 4 solid walls and a door. (a.k.a. office).
Where is this option?
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Offices are overrated 
I do like to have my own office though, I had one in the previous company.
WM.
What about weapons of mass-construction?
"What? Its an Apple MacBook Pro. They are sexy!" - Paul Watson
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You can not expect this in India. You would see worse scenes like half a dozen people squatting across and sharing the same dormitory-kind of environment.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
Tech Gossips
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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