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| Ranayna:
I am sitting in an open space. Our building has several separated floors designed for 30-something people. Most of the time this works adequately well, even though my team (5, including me) sit at the entrance of the floor. It works, because by now, many visual and sound "breaks" have been implemented, and we are generally allowed to use headphones with our own music. But there are some areas where the workers are not allowed to use headphones, "because it looks bad" |O |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on February 12, 2020, 02:50:00 am ---Enclosed spaces provide for more concentration levels as the amount of visual and sound disturbances are minimised. You could set your own lighting levels as well. I think it comes down to the floor space requirement which comes at a premium. One can have an open office space of 6ft x 6ft and still not feel claustrophobic. But for a dedicated office with closed doors, you may need at least 8ft x 8ft of space, if not more. Almost double the floor space.. --- End quote --- Duh, nobody doesn’t understand that open plans are cheaper. Our point is that it’s a false economy to save a few hundred bucks a month on rent, at the expense of a few thousand bucks of productivity (and the employees’ sanity). |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: EEEnthusiast on February 12, 2020, 03:10:18 am ---May be the companies should offer a choice of a dedicated office space vs open office to suit personal needs. After all, the cost to company for the rental space is only a fraction of the salary of engineers. --- End quote --- What fantasy land did you work in? LOL Very few people actually want open floor plans for themselves. Heck, you see it all the time that the boss chooses them for everyone — and keeps a private office for themselves, since they “need” it... |
| krish2487:
--- Quote ---Capacitors?!? Ummm, I don’t think they’ve made color-coded capacitors since something like the 1960s. Resistors and inductors are the only holdouts, and frankly I wish they’d quit it. As much as I enjoy the colorful bands from an aesthetic standpoint, they’re a PITA to use, especially on the dark body colors they use today, as Ranayna said. Of course, one will encounter them in antiques, but that’s not what we are talking about in a production environment. --- End quote --- I m sorry, I should have been more specific. I was referring to THT polyester and/or film capacitors. It was a fairly common occurrence to see capacitors with color bands till a decade ago... |
| tooki:
They definitely existed, but they most certainly were not common a decade ago. Or even 3 decades ago. They’d pretty much disappeared by the time I was born, and I just turned 40... |
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