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by mkopinsky 5389 days ago
I worked for about 6 months in an office with an open floor plan, and the noise did get to me sometimes, but at those times I would undock my laptop and find an empty desk in some other division where people didn't have conference calls going on speakerphone. (BTW, hearing a conference call coming out of two speakerphones - or hearing a person speaking to your left and then their voice coming out of a speakerphone on your right half a second later - is perhaps the most distracting thing ever.)