I will make tons of enemies with this statement, but for me machanical keyboards should be banned from offices.
In my dev-room we are up 20 people, and 19 of us (so, not me) have a mechanical keyboard. The noise is very annoying, expecially when my fellow coworkers go in berserk and start to tap on those damn keyboards at the spead of light. I put my headphones on but I cannot listen to load music 8h straight everyday.
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
Why are you asking me? How should I know? Hey here's a suggestion, how about not in the same room, because science (and anyone who's had to sit next to Loud Janice from marketing) says it's bad for you regardless of what kind of keyboard you use?
If the theme here is going from a bad office environment to a worse one, though, there's always having everybody and their mechanical keyboards pile into a clown car:
// , “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness... but the monkey is serious because he itches."(No/No)
I will make tons of enemies with this statement, but for me machanical keyboards should be banned from offices.
In my dev-room we are up 20 people, and 19 of us (so, not me) have a mechanical keyboard. The noise is very annoying, expecially when my fellow coworkers go in berserk and start to tap on those damn keyboards at the spead of light. I put my headphones on but I cannot listen to load music 8h straight everyday.
Please, don't use mechanical keyboards
Also - why do mice have to click? What does that sound really give us? My deaf friend is a damn good programmer.
A satirical ode to the annoyance power of mechanical keyboards: dev.to/v6/comment/p0o2
Why are you all in the same room, anyway?
where should we be?
Why are you asking me? How should I know? Hey here's a suggestion, how about not in the same room, because science (and anyone who's had to sit next to Loud Janice from marketing) says it's bad for you regardless of what kind of keyboard you use?
If the theme here is going from a bad office environment to a worse one, though, there's always having everybody and their mechanical keyboards pile into a clown car:
Doing a step back for a moment: there is an inherent problem with open space offices, which mechanical keyboards exacerbate
There's a lot of good research out there that corroborates this.
hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-op...