What kind of office environment do you work in?

Energize · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:12

Our building has rooms for each department, graphics design, development, marketing, account management, and operations which is IT/HR/Finance.

Our group of IT staff is really chatty and we have a great laugh, if I worked in a silent office I'd be looking for a new job ASAP!

snips86x · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:16

Energize said:
Our building has rooms for each department, graphics design, development, marketing, account management, and operations which is IT/HR/Finance.

Our group of IT staff is really chatty and we have a great laugh, if I worked in a silent office I'd be looking for a new job ASAP!

I think that's what is annoying me more...I used to be in a room with people of similar age and we got on and had a laugh. Banter was real. Now, it's quite old grumpy devs and it's sooooooo depressing

PapaLazaru · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:23

Huge open plan office(s). 7 in total, each with three floors. Coffee shop in each as a minimum plus a main restaurant. Everyone hot desks (we all have laptops) and you can wander around as you please in any building.

In the summer you can sit on big bean bags by the lake and work in the sun and grab some lunch from the regular bbq. Got a gym, doctor, hairdresser and massage stuff onsite.

I like it.

Greg0986 · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:27

Open plan office of about 10 people, me being the only bloke...

Ayahuasca · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:37

PapaLazaru said:
Huge open plan office(s). 7 in total, each with three floors. Coffee shop in each as a minimum plus a main restaurant. Everyone hot desks (we all have laptops) and you can wander around as you please in any building.

In the summer you can sit on big bean bags by the lake and work in the sun and grab some lunch from the regular bbq. Got a gym, doctor, hairdresser and massage stuff onsite.

I like it.

That doesn't even sound like work

mind me asking what your role is?

snips86x · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:43

PapaLazaru said:
Huge open plan office(s). 7 in total, each with three floors. Coffee shop in each as a minimum plus a main restaurant. Everyone hot desks (we all have laptops) and you can wander around as you please in any building.

In the summer you can sit on big bean bags by the lake and work in the sun and grab some lunch from the regular bbq. Got a gym, doctor, hairdresser and massage stuff onsite.

I like it.

Sounds like something Google would have

GinG · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:43

PapaLazaru said:
Huge open plan office(s). 7 in total, each with three floors. Coffee shop in each as a minimum plus a main restaurant. Everyone hot desks (we all have laptops) and you can wander around as you please in any building.

In the summer you can sit on big bean bags by the lake and work in the sun and grab some lunch from the regular bbq. Got a gym, doctor, hairdresser and massage stuff onsite.

I like it.

Sounds an awesome environment, however on the flip side what is your working hours per week and work/life balance?

A few people working in similar environments I have talked to end up working much longer hours and seem to not be able to get away from the office.

Flibster · 18 Oct 2017 at 15:59

Home office.

Great coffee, great music, no phone and for quiet periods or when the machine is calculating... SNES, NES, X360 on a 60" screen.

randomshenans · 18 Oct 2017 at 16:04

http://campus.novartis.com/

That's my site, which is better than a lot of places.

PapaLazaru · 18 Oct 2017 at 17:30

Ayahuasca said:
That doesn't even sound like work mind me asking what your role is?

I work in fraud for one of the telecoms companies at their HQ.

snips86x said:
Sounds like something Google would have

No slides unfortunately.

GinG said:
Sounds an awesome environment, however on the flip side what is your working hours per week and work/life balance?

A few people working in similar environments I have talked to end up working much longer hours and seem to not be able to get away from the office.

Working week is 37.5 hours but i tend to work through my lunch as it is pretty easy to do, but rarely more unless there is an emergency and then I can log on whenever. The doctor is always available which is good and I get the point. You feel ill, you go to the doctor who either signs you off or not and you can't really argue.

Get my haircut at work as well, saves me faffing about on the weekend and a lot of my colleagues use the gym as we are allowed to use it as we please, as long as we don't take the mick. Work hour gym sessions are allowed.

sHo0sH · 18 Oct 2017 at 17:44

Mr^B said:
SNIP.

This is just down the road from my offices, we're opposite the bottom of the walkie talkie building on Eastcheap.
Big open plan floors with terrible hardware.

darkgen · 18 Oct 2017 at 17:53

WfH, which is isolating but I find I'm able to be very productive (home office with two 3440p screens etc). However, when I venture to site; it's often to a dedicated datacentre or space dedicated to DC staff. I find it too distracting with loud mouths on skype calls and other general in-considerations. More often than not I'm on-site for meetings so likely in meeting room with pen and paper.

When I worked exclusively on-site 20 plus years ago; we were situated in an access controlled area and it was an absolute laugh. Then again, I was 20 years younger back then ....

RobDogDog · 18 Oct 2017 at 18:08

Our office is 2 x ICT techs, head of ICT and one Business/ICT teacher who is half in half out. It's a great laugh and there's always people coming in.

tres · 18 Oct 2017 at 18:13

My office is a children's ward, lots of kids running around, always cake and food to eat, love it

Mr^B · 18 Oct 2017 at 22:14

Skillmister said:
Meanwhile I'm on a 17" 1280x1024 monitor, with a 2.6ghz E5300 and 2GB RAM and the world's slowest server connection. Kill me.

Oh yeah and one of those **** typical blue office chairs

Desktop is circa 2011. We're at least 4 years overdue an upgrade.

RoboCod · 18 Oct 2017 at 22:19

One without windows.

Spook187 · 18 Oct 2017 at 22:31

Couldn't think of anything worse than working in a office, the great outdoors is where it's at

Diddums · 18 Oct 2017 at 22:53

Well we do the maintenance in our building. We have access to every single room in the building as well as the roof. We can basically go where we want, when we want (within reason ofc). Our workshop, office and stores are in the basement where we hang out and talk crap. The tenants in our building are quite varied and their offices are seriously jacked up. It's nice to have the freedom to just move around. I'd go nuts if I had to sit at a desk all day.

Mrs Seabiscuit · 19 Oct 2017 at 07:19

I work in an open plan office, although where I am is slightly more cornered off. Quite nice however I would prefer to work alone in an office or from home. Its fairly quiet where I sit so its not to bad.
There is occasional office banter however everyone tends to get on with their work as we have targets to hit.

Zenduri · 19 Oct 2017 at 07:35

Office has a background noise as theres about 300 people on the floor and its completely open. My team/ dept is squirreled away in a corner so its not too bad to be honest.

Not wishing to be sexist but calling it how it is. The one really negative is that in a dept of 38 the cliques and politics that go on with the women are mental especially bearing in mind they make up 3/4 of the dept so you cant escape it.