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Have you ever considered that FB, HN, etc are the way people cope with the extra stress, distraction, and low level anxiety of working in an open plan office?

When I work from home I don't waste time on these distractions like I do when I'm in the office.

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I have considered that, but I don't buy it for one moment. Open plan offices have many advantages, you just need to hire people that are mature enough to deal with it. People who can self regulate. I don't mind some time spent on FB and HN etc, I think the latter is actually a net-positive, there are technologies that osmotically people become familiar with through reading about people's experiences. But FB is 100% a waste of time. Corporate IT don't block it, they just measure it and provide management reports on it's usage.

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