How productive in open space

What's wrong with open space

open space offices are known since the days of Henry Ford's engineers work and still remain one of the most popular types of planning. Numerous studies prove9 Reasons That Open-Space Offices Are Insanely Stupid.That this format has become obsolete: the efficiency of the lower than in the offices of cabinet types, as employees get tired more quickly and less time to.

The main problems in open space:

1. The noise, which is produced by working people and equipment.
2. The risk of spreading infection if someone "responsible" colleagues come to the office sick.
3. inability achieve a flow condition It works due to frequent interruptions and meetings.

If you work best in the morning or in the evening, when most of your colleagues do not have to work place, and you have time to something that is not done in two hours for the other six, look at our recommendations.

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Flexible working hours

If your job allows you to format, use a flexible schedule. A better and more convenient to work in the morning, when most of the colleagues yet in the workplace, others wake up late in the afternoon.

Follow your biorhythms.

Agree on such a schedule may be difficult with the authorities, but should at least try. If the assigned task will be carried out, what difference in what kind of period of time?

The practice of publishing in which I worked, showed the effectiveness of this approach. Clear the starting time of the day and it was only at the end of the staff, tied to customer service, and salespeople. Editorial, promotion and other departments formally started work at 10:00, but even within the same department were differentiation for owls and larks.

Transition to udalonku

Experience of 37SignalsWhich consists almost entirely of remote employees, it proved that to be effective it is important for people to cross for four hours a day online. The remaining four o'clock people were working in their schedule.

This allowed the company located in the United States, to join their team of programmers from Hong Kong, Russia, Denmark, Sweden and various US cities. More you can read about it in the book "Remote. The office is not required", Which was written the owners Jason Fried and David Hansson.

We do not suggest you leave the office and go completely on udalonku as a schedule will be very difficult to agree with your supervisor.

But, for example, when a project or in front of a responsible Deadline is quite possible to agree on a couple of days to work from home, to maximize focus on the task at hand.

If the presence of the office still need to

We agree with colleagues

One of the most annoying things - talking is not the case, students who become colleagues, was next. Move discussions peregovorku or the kitchen.

Appointment of meetings and discussions of other working moments, details of which concerns only part of the people, move to e-mail, Skype, Telegram or any other messenger, handy for most employees.

In offices where adopted a flexible work schedule, there is still prescribed the beginning of the working day. Agreed that after the official 9 am all included after not say hello to the room and do not distract already working colleagues.

Make it a rule to switch the phone on silent mode and out of the room when you call.

Do not come to work sick and thus not expose colleagues at risk.

Danish researchers conducted a study among 2403 employees working in different types of offices, and came to the conclusion that people get sick from the open space by 62% more likely than employees with personal cabinetSickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices - a national cross sectional questionnaire survey..

Install airing schedule, then you will avoid the discontent that someone blows again. Go out into the corridor and kneaded for 10 minutes - useful as a for eyesAnd for your productivity.

If these rules are spelled out in the policy of the company and the job descriptions, no one will be offended when you tactfully remind them.

Buy Noise-Canceling Headphones

Get rid of the obsessive drone help Noise-Canceling Headphones. It is of two types: active and passive.

Passive noise reduction is achieved through overlapping external sounds thick ear pads or "plugs". Here, the choice of no single recipe. It is necessary to re-measure a plurality of pairs to choose something that will be particularly comfortable for you and enjoy the sound.

Headphones with active noise cancellation effectively dampen other sounds, but are much more expensive. Their operating principle is based on the fact that an optional headset microphone that picks up ambient noise and reproduces them in opposition.

Dimensional humming computers, printers and ventilation will go completely as soon as you put on the headphones. Ceasing to hear and talk, would be enough to include suitable music.

In some people, wearing headphones with active noise cancellation may cause dizziness or headache. And it is not as performance headphones themselves, and in particular human anatomy and the vestibular apparatus.

In order not to spend money for nothing, ask friends who have these headphones, borrow them for a couple days or find out before you buy at the store about the features of the return, if suddenly you do not fit headphones.

According to the law "On Protection of Consumer Rights"RF Law of 07.02.1992 № 2300-1 «On Protection of Consumers' Rights. and Article 502 of the Civil CodeArticle 502 of the Civil Code. you can return the goods of good quality in the store within 14 days of purchase. But the store can insist that these headphones are technically sophisticated productsRF Government Decree of 19.01.1998 number 55., Returns and exchanges are not carried out.

engaged in redevelopment

Look critically at the layout of the place in which it operates. Do you have a dedicated room for the kitchen, and what it represents: a separate room, a fence or a table in the middle of the room with a kettle and a coffee maker?

Coffee maker and other noisy appliances worth maximally isolated from the main room. If there is a separate fence, try to agree on how to bring it up to the ceiling and separate the kitchen from the common area by a door.

Printers and coolers should be as far away from workplaces.

The office should be divided into noisy and quiet areas. Settle together marketers and programmers - a bad idea for both departments.

Organize your work area so that it may be nice to be there, because at work we spend most of the day. Comfortable workplace - a balance between openness and privacy. You can isolate themselves from fellow flowers, wall or cabinet, without leaving the common space.

are saving time

open space in the danger that every employee is almost at arm's length. So the advantage of this plan turns into a curse, because you are constantly distracted. In this case, the fact that your colleague may be urgent and important task for you turns non-urgent and unimportant.

Schedule your appointments follow the rules to allocate the required and optional attendees, at the end of planorki send this entire protocol with end solutions and upcoming deadlines.

Take the time to be just your to complete your tasks when one of his colleagues will not distract you for your questions. Advance notify colleagues that are preparing for an important deadline for the whole team, so ask them not to bother you on a certain day or hour.

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Working in open space - a series of compromises. Start changes with himself and his inner circle, then gradually catch up to the new standards, and the other colleagues. Even if you are not a leader and ordinary employee, you can change your life for the better office. It is enough to take a proactive stance and promote their ideas.

Tell us how the work problems in open space you decide?