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One might think from looking at the survey results that open plan is preferred over cubes, but many of those surveyed chose private offices, as if that's a real choice these days (not!). I bet if those who chose private offices only had a choice between cubes and open office, you'd see cubes being favored.
-Dragon Jam
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You've got the time between arriving and start of play to do your emails, 40 minutes' lunch and twenty minutes' tea to code in and any other breaks in play to make 'phone calls. Sounds pretty damned optimal to me.
(I'm kind of wishing I was in Barbados right now).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: I'm kind of wishing I was in Barbados right now
To watch England get screwed? 
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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They may still draw it. But yeah, this is unexpected!
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A slightly surreal performance from England, in many ways. To win a series in Sri Lanka and then get skittled by Roston Chase on a non-turning track rather beggars belief (no offence to Roston but he's hardly in the Shane Warne/Muralitharan stakes as a wicket taker).
Some beautiful bowling by Kemar Roach, though and a truly wonderful knock from the skipper. Hetmayer looks like a huge star in the making, too.
It's great to see the Windies in such good shape, we can only hope that they don't lose too many of these players to franchise "cricket".
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Semi-related to this survey topic
Clickety[^]
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I think whom ever came up with the idea of open space (share cubical and dividers are only 3 feet tall) should be shot. Programmers are not assembling parts or doing mundane tasks. They require deep thoughts process in long session. Peripheral vision is what keep us survive and is a very powerful distraction. I turned down an offer just because they are working in an open space environment.
I have the privilege to work from home for a year and it was great. I would take a $10K in reduction pay if I can work from home. 
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I agree 100%. But also want to add when you work on a complex project were more than one devices needs to interface with each other, you do not want anybody to disturb the setup. In an open plan office - Managers, fellow ignorant employees, cleaning lady, office cat etc disturbs, removes and actually destroys the project. I prefer a private lockable office so I can continue where I left of the previous day. Open plan office is for a company with a bogus project that wants to waist their capital. They are not serious.
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I need the "work environment", otherwise other things tend to take too much time out of the working day. OTOH, working in a "common area" (team office/cubicles/open plan) is too distracting - especially with the "loud Howard"s in the office. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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After working in New York for over 20 years i started with cubes and then went to private offices but the new age of development tends to be this open area desks where IT really thinks that the programmers actually converse about the project mission when in fact there is no privacy and chit chats about what is happening in the news or what was done over the weekend or what do you want for lunch is a more suited discussion.
The best methods of delivering weekly status reports, small group meetings (and that was done either in an office or during lunch) and open discussion on fixing a software bug tends to be over bloated meetings with long talks and losing time to work.
After all those years, i now work from my own office with my software tools to build applications in short time for my clients and that is all that matters.
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I work from home 2 days a week, I could work from home every day but I have found that I need that personal interaction that an office brings. Easier to collaborate when in person.
Although I do hate the open office concept I sit in.
When I work from home more than 2 days in a row I feel the need to go to the office but then while I'm sitting in the traffic I start to wonder why I'm going to the office.
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A long time ago, near an Air Force base not too far away...
I worked for a defense contractor. We had a suite of individual offices, each of which opened on a common area. It combined the best of both worlds. Leave your office door open and you could easily participate in the ongoing group interaction. If you were in the flow and didn't want to be disturbed, you closed your door. Closed door etiquette was such that you only knocked on a door if you were either the boss or the building was on fire.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Three things came together around 2008 that allowed us to downsize and lose the office.
0: I relocated to an area with high-speed internet available.
1: We found a reliable over-the-internet remote desktop system.
2: We switched to VOIP.
Most customers know that I work from home, and for those that don't, sooner or later the dog will give it away!  I even have an extra chair and desk area for the senior partner who comes over at least twice a week to direct me and to get caught up.
For those poor sods who still suffer through rush hour traffic every day, I don't envy you at all! My truck is now over 8 years old and has < 30K miles. (including several 1-2K road trips)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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After three years of working at home, I was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. And I didn't even smoke. There's a reason that solitary confinement in prison is considered punishment (torture.)
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Being able to travel and work remotely from beautiful and interesting places.
(slap) . . . wake up; your dreaming (huh? uh?)
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My last two vacation trips to Hawaii (Waikiki) I still needed to work (contract). In the mornings I would open the sliding doors to the lanai, pour a cup of coffee and work for a few hours on the laptop, using the in-suite wifi and a VPN connection. Work a few hours, then lunch and out for the rest of the day/evening...
Was great and very productive. Need to find a way to do more of that
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Well, the headlines, anyway. I have had manager who believes 100% in open floor space planning because he read that headline in Forbes magazine, and it said it was good. No other reason. Just sort of like an NPC in a really bad RPG bleating the same thing over and over. Funny thing is he insists on having his own office, and his managers must have all their own offices, too.
I always find it interesting how the people who advocate crap like open spaces never have to suffer them.
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May I upvote your thought at least 10 x ? …
Trying right now …  … tried and failed, but there is 1 upvote from me anyway …
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Those same managers who advocate the open plan abomination get a huge bonus for saving the organisation serious money on real estate. Productivity on the other hand goes through the floor!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I hate open plan offices. Not only are they incredibly noisy they can be visually distracting too (Have you ever tried to concentrate when a 6' 4" Tigger has just bounced by just within peripheral vision? It's hard, trust me).
Guess what sort of office I work in (when I'm not working from home that is) 
Working from home is great if you can manage the self-discipline. Sometimes I will wear "sort of" work clothes to get me into that space if it's been a while. Then change into "my real" clothes at the end of the working day for a complete mind-shift. Mind you at other times you really don't want to see what I "wear"
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snap in so many ways
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It's a funny thing that happens twice a day, in the morning and again in the evening morons come out in droves. People that only think of themselves, are rude and think the road was made just for them. So commuting to work is not just a PITA, it seems to be a fight for survival at times.
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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Just having the daily commute being ten seconds in each direction makes such a difference to QoL: you aren't fighting traffic for two hours a day (more if someone does something really stupid) and paying a small fortune for the privilege. You knock off, you're home. The rest of the time is yours. And it's quiet. Peaceful. nobody standing over your shoulder silently pressing you to finish what you are doing, or worse making it obvious they aren't happy you don't consider them No 1 Priority. Or just chatting over and over about some stupid TV show you didn't watch, won't watch, never want to watch.
Get the balance right, and get some discipline in your life, and it's wonderful. Obligatory Dilbert[^]
Work. From. Home.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I completely agree. Don't work from home all the time, but at least I have the option to do so. However, I've had a really hard fight trying to get the missus to understand that "work from home" means that I actually have to work - In her book, "work from home" means vacuuming, cleaning, doing dishes, doing laundry, going shopping etc. 
But in all sincerity, in MY book, "work from home" also includes lying on the sofa cuddling the cats for an hour after lunch... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
modified 25-Jan-19 3:42am.
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have been working from home for the last 4-5 years now as an independent contractor.
I would not have it any other way.
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