Comments on: Anxiety causes selfish behavior https://www.robg3d.com/2015/02/anxiety-causes-selfish-behavior/ Blog of Rob Galanakis (@robgalanakis) Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 By: Chris Lesage https://www.robg3d.com/2015/02/anxiety-causes-selfish-behavior/#comment-237261 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:58:57 +0000 http://www.robg3d.com/?p=1808#comment-237261 Very interesting! I wanted to add another perspective. After having just read “Quiet” by Susan Cain, I’m considering the various studios I’ve worked for and their culture of communication and their effect on anxiety. (At least for the introverted employees.)

– Being in wide open-floor spaces (I’ve measured ranges of 70-100dB in one studio. 70-80 was the baseline.)

– Being in row desks where everyone behind you can see your monitor, and you are constantly making unintended eye contact with the row ahead of you.

– Companies which have grown from 30-90 to 100-400 in my experience seem to retain their small-studio culture of communication. For example, meetings of hundreds crammed shoulder-to-shoulder into a common area to announce something which could have been a 2-line email. Shoulder-tapping interruptions and the expectancy to be immediately available for questions instead of email or digital issue-tracking. (Even in companies where there is formal issue-tracking!)

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