10. Brain Time versus Body Time
As part of the Santa Teresa pre-construction study described in Chapter 9, “Saving Money on Space,” McCue and his associates looked into the amounts of time that developers spend in different work modes. For a typical day, they concluded that workers divide their time as shown in Table 10–1.
Work Mode |
Percent of Time |
Working alone |
30% |
Working with one other person |
50% |
Working with two or more people |
20% |
Table 10–1. How Developers Spend Their Time
The significance of this table from a noise standpoint should be evident: Thirty percent of the time, people are noise sensitive, and the rest of the time, they are noise generators. Since the workplace is a mixture of people working alone and people working ...
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