Andrew Herron on Headphones and the Open Plan office

2009-10-23T14:19:53Z

There was a nice discussion about this at the end of a recent Stack Overflow podcast:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/podcast-69/

Apparently studies have shown that music actually decreases productivity, even if you feel more productive. I believe (and they mention) that as programmers if we can find music that puts you in “the zone” then that’s a good thing, otherwise the music just becomes a distraction.

Brian Lawrence on Headphones and the Open Plan office

2010-02-19T12:27:12Z

I so agree with that comment, Mr Henderson. In my old office, many of the individual offices were converted to open plan ones and i believe it actually did decrease productivity. In addition, it increased irritation levels!!

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