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This includes making a reccomendation to senior management on all topics including:
- WFH vs. in person (how often in office? in office at all? etc) - Office space requirements (lease is up this year) - What does the office look like (how are we using it? what is office for?)
The project seems to encompass everything and I have the opportunity to reshape the culture of our company for years to come.
Where do I start? How do I solicit feedback? Do I copy another company (Basecamp/Dropbox?) or start from scratch? How have you approached this project at your company?
This has produced lots of bad effects regarding sound:
-The office is library quiet, all you hear is clicking and typing
-There aren't enough people to generate a din,
-Taking a call is so awkward, making a call is too. You hear every word every person says in the office. Everyone takes calls in "phone booths".
-Any noise is distraction, any conversation is a distraction, however:
-It is inherently anti-social, as everyone either has headphones in or too scared to have a casual conversation because it is too quiet.
-We have these zones that are supposed to be loud/active, quieter, then the "actual library" area, which is supposed to be quiet, but the whole office ends up quiet.
Solutions I have thought of:
-Piping in white noise like www.coffitivity.com into certain areas of the office
-Creating natural sound barriers like temporary screen walls to make people more comfortable conversing without people worrying about distracting others.
That said, I need help. I want to be able to bring in some ideas to management that will help this situation.
Or is it a bad idea, and a loud office is much worse than a library quiet one?