I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Headphones and hiding. For example, I am currently sitting on a sofa on the mezzanine above our open plan office, and I can see other people in the kitchen and hall with their laptops. It's a solution to a problem that didn't need to exist in the first place, really...
Unfortunately here, there's not place to hide :(... My headphones are with me wherever I go, however, some of my coworkers tend to think that they need to scream or make a lot of noise to be heard.
I second having a hiding place. Use a conference room if you have any of those. Advocate for a space with the people who manage that. Headphones alone do not a happy brain make.
When advocating, you can cite the need for a quiet place to make phone calls or something - then just use the space to escape for an hour or two if you get it.
Headphones and hiding. For example, I am currently sitting on a sofa on the mezzanine above our open plan office, and I can see other people in the kitchen and hall with their laptops. It's a solution to a problem that didn't need to exist in the first place, really...
Unfortunately here, there's not place to hide :(... My headphones are with me wherever I go, however, some of my coworkers tend to think that they need to scream or make a lot of noise to be heard.
I second having a hiding place. Use a conference room if you have any of those. Advocate for a space with the people who manage that. Headphones alone do not a happy brain make.
When advocating, you can cite the need for a quiet place to make phone calls or something - then just use the space to escape for an hour or two if you get it.
Thanks! I will advocate for one room for work in silence.
Good luck! If you need it, there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that people need less noise in the workplace.