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On blast, yes.
With headphones, no.
During a meeting, yes.
When you're hunkering down and working alone, no.
I agree. I work in tax so I’m not at the client site often. When I am, I’ll listen with one earbud and keep the other open. Sometimes clients walk by to ask a question and I prefer not to be startled.
On headphones? Of course not
In the before times our open concept office was so bad multiple ppl on our team blasted white noise in earbuds all day to focus. Other ppl use music. Whatever gets you into flow
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i’m a big white noise proponent
I know some seniors/managers prefer for staff to not have headphones on so they have a better understanding of whats going on around them and if someone asks them a question they don’t give them the “uh what?” If you’re working from home, there’s no problem, unless it distracts you.
Nah, I always got my headphone on unless I’m talking to someone. I already got a ton of people pinging me all day. The least they can do is let me enjoy my music.
Depends on the team and who is on site. Most likely unintentional, but it can send a message of unapproachable or distant. It can be frustrating trying to get someone’s attention to ask a question or, as someone mentioned, they are unable to chime-in to a conversation when another part of the group is problem solving. It takes away from the group atmosphere.
I used to sit in a spot in the office that was at a crossroads where the hallway from the break room lead back to cubes and everyone would just stop and talk in front of my desk all. day. I needed noise cancelling headphones just to concentrate at all.
Not everyone has the will of a brick wall to stand strong in the face of distractions and to be honest, sitting there for 8 hours a day in complete silence is boring as hell.
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I use earbuds and put it in one ear, and then cover it with my hair. But no one is talking to me the whole day.
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Nah. Jam out bro.
My team know I'm more productive with music on to block everything out so they don't care. If they have a question they IM me and I take the headphones out
I’m really on the fence on this one. It probably depends on
1) what’s your role and seniority
2) what you’re working on at the moment
3) team room or individual cubicle
1) I’d say in general a more senior person should err on the side of not wearing them. Reason being as someone mentioned above you have to show that you are approachable. Basically if your door is open, your headphones should be off
2) if you’re working on some sort of code or model I’d say it’s fine to put them on. Basically times when you’ve got one and only one task ahead of you and trying to knock it out is probably a good time to do it
3) I’d say cubicle is better than team room. Goes back to the earlier point of what you’re working on. If the group is collaboratively working on a deck, it’s probably better to not wear them because it’s just that extra barrier to the quick question. If it’s a team room but you’re sort of working on something that’s different, no one needs your input etc then it’s probably fine.