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The room next to my office is a conference room, sort of. It used to be office space, but the room is now dedicated to one of our major client projects. They needed space for a bunch of machines, and they also need to have frequent teleconferences with the part of the team that's overseas, and so the easiest thing was to just give them a room. The problem is that this room was never designed as a conference room, so the sorts of sound baffling that you might do for a conference room weren't done. So we have thin walls, thin doors, an echo/amplification effect from the walls in that room, and numerous loud people. Holding multi-hour daily meetings. Daily.
My office mate and I talked to the project manager about it; we were hoping he could experiment with moving the phone (and thus the meetings' center of gravity) farther away from the shared wall, or that his awareness of the problem would help keep things down in there. Sadly, it's not working. He means well and he's a very nice person, and he's come into our office a few times to hear what it's like, but sadly, he is a large part of the problem. I'm naturally loud too, so I empathize; he probably realizes that he's loud and works on it when he's got the cycles to spare, but when you really get into something those cycles get chewed up by other things instead. Lord knows I've tried to fix this problem in myself and frequently fail. So I don't know how to solve the problem of meetings in this room. It's not going to just go away in a few days; it's there for the long haul.
My office mate is going to bring in a white-noise generator to see if that helps. And we've asked the office manager about cheap, easy options (I'm thinking sound-proofing foam on the back of the door and on the shared wall). The goal isn't silence so much as muffling; maybe we can work something out.
The other side of the conference room borders on the outside hallway. If you stand in the hall, you can clearly hear the conversation. I'll bet they wouldn't be thrilled to know that denizens of the other software companies in the building can potentially hear their meetings, but we haven't had the opportunity to point it out to them yet.
Sigh.
My office mate and I talked to the project manager about it; we were hoping he could experiment with moving the phone (and thus the meetings' center of gravity) farther away from the shared wall, or that his awareness of the problem would help keep things down in there. Sadly, it's not working. He means well and he's a very nice person, and he's come into our office a few times to hear what it's like, but sadly, he is a large part of the problem. I'm naturally loud too, so I empathize; he probably realizes that he's loud and works on it when he's got the cycles to spare, but when you really get into something those cycles get chewed up by other things instead. Lord knows I've tried to fix this problem in myself and frequently fail. So I don't know how to solve the problem of meetings in this room. It's not going to just go away in a few days; it's there for the long haul.
My office mate is going to bring in a white-noise generator to see if that helps. And we've asked the office manager about cheap, easy options (I'm thinking sound-proofing foam on the back of the door and on the shared wall). The goal isn't silence so much as muffling; maybe we can work something out.
The other side of the conference room borders on the outside hallway. If you stand in the hall, you can clearly hear the conversation. I'll bet they wouldn't be thrilled to know that denizens of the other software companies in the building can potentially hear their meetings, but we haven't had the opportunity to point it out to them yet.
Sigh.