My Friday fun poll over on LinkedIn this week is about your preferred working environment and whether you like background music, talk or silence.
We don’t have much choice but to work from home at the moment and that may or may not be conducive to getting stuff done.
But putting to one side these strange times, what would be your ideal ‘office’ set up?
It’s such a personal thing, isn’t it? I don’t envy businesses designing office space and trying to navigate the middle ground.
Open-plan offices have made communication and collaboration much easier – but they can also be noisy and distracting.
Idea of office hell
My idea of hell would be an office with music that I had no control over.
I do like music when I work but it has to be classical. Anything else is distracting and can start to stress me out.
If I can’t have music then I want quiet or a very low hubbub of voices.
Back when I used to work in an office I often found it noisy and difficult to zone out of conversations happening around me.
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