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		Osiris on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker... I'm in a cube farm right now and I don't find that the cubes make the noise any softer than my co-workers in another office that have an open plan. I can still plainly hear everything that people around me are talking about. I still find headphones a necessity.

twistedpair on Sept 19, 2013 [–]

I can still hear my coworker clipping his toe nails each week two cubes down. Cubes don't help much.

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