Comments on: How does your team sit? http://blog.paulmoser.co.uk/index.php/2007/12/11/how-does-your-team-sit/ So much to learn but so little time Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:15:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Milan Magudia http://blog.paulmoser.co.uk/index.php/2007/12/11/how-does-your-team-sit/comment-page-1/#comment-10455 Milan Magudia Fri, 23 May 2008 14:26:31 +0000 http://blog.paulmoser.co.uk/index.php/2007/12/11/how-does-your-team-sit/#comment-10455 Like cars everyone knows the worst place to sit is the middle Like cars everyone knows the worst place to sit is the middle

]]> By: Kerry Buckley http://blog.paulmoser.co.uk/index.php/2007/12/11/how-does-your-team-sit/comment-page-1/#comment-6573 Kerry Buckley Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:55:45 +0000 http://blog.paulmoser.co.uk/index.php/2007/12/11/how-does-your-team-sit/#comment-6573 I'm not so sure. I quite like being able to swivel my chair to see what anyone's up to, and to scoot across to ask a question without having to stand up and walk round a desk. Impromptu conversations mean everyone turning inwards, which beats talking across a desk, and also avoids splitting your attention between the conversation and what's on your screen. It's definitely less than ideal when the team doesn't fit in one bay though, and you have to go round the partition (or talk over it) to speak to people in the next one. Either way though, it's infinitely better than being in a different building, town, or even continent! [footnote] Just before hitting submit, it occurred to me that because I'm out on the end of the bay, angled inwards, people are more to the side of me than behind, and still in my field of vision. I guess it's worse in the middle! I’m not so sure. I quite like being able to swivel my chair to see what anyone’s up to, and to scoot across to ask a question without having to stand up and walk round a desk. Impromptu conversations mean everyone turning inwards, which beats talking across a desk, and also avoids splitting your attention between the conversation and what’s on your screen.

It’s definitely less than ideal when the team doesn’t fit in one bay though, and you have to go round the partition (or talk over it) to speak to people in the next one.

Either way though, it’s infinitely better than being in a different building, town, or even continent!

[footnote] Just before hitting submit, it occurred to me that because I’m out on the end of the bay, angled inwards, people are more to the side of me than behind, and still in my field of vision. I guess it’s worse in the middle!

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