how I work

[cellio]

LifeHacker is doing a series on how I work and one of my coworkers brought the concept to our wiki late last week. This is approximately what I posted. (I hadn't yet seen the LifeHacker posts, so the style doesn't exactly match.)

Comments

[dvarin]

Huh, interesting--for me music is attention-grabbing or not mostly depending on whether there's singing. Unfamiliar songs' lyrics are what most distract me, so in my current environment where I'm forced to use headphones and music a lot (because my employer's phone conversations are even more distracting), I've been tuning Pandora to instrumental music of various types.

[meiravberale]

Oh, you have my sympathy re the noisiness of open plan work environments! I used to work in one of those and it drove me nuts. My boss ended up giving me a room to myself because I just couldn't cope with the chatter around me.