More companies are taking the open office concept further with first-come, first-served work areas.
This trend was discussed in the Wall Street Journal Online article “Warming Up to the Officeless Office”. A “survey of 950 companies, the International Facility Management Association, a trade group for office-facility managers, found 60% had some unassigned workspaces in their offices,” the article said.
The article goes on to suggest six rules for office etiquette. They are:
- No sneaking up
- No loitering
- Use your ‘indoor voice’
- Never eavesdrop
- Limit chit-chat
- Use headphones
Anne Kreamer in her article “Workers, Take Off Your Headphones” suggests caution working with headphones on. She says it isolates you from the informal office life and informal conversations going on around you. Use headphones during times requiring intense focus but don’t have them on all the time.
