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"The conversations floating around, the noise and animation helps me focus a lot more than in a closed office at work."

I wish I could say the same :) I get pulled into a million conversations simply because I'm there and accessible. Open floorplans decimate focus, in my experience.

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I think there's a difference between willingly join a conversation when you know you can help and being pulled in the conversation by someone asking for your opinion all the time. I agree that if the second one happens all day that's a big issue for me too.

Almost always the latter (being pulled into the convo by someone asking for your opinion all the time).

I've never been in a situation where I was working and people around would all the time interrupt me and ask for my opinion for everything everyday. And I've worked in big open floorplans. So I would not say it is always the latter here.

Consider yourself very, very lucky. I'm lucky if I get 20 minutes of solid thinking time at my desk. I'm also an architect on a 60 person project, so it may just be different for me.

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