<story><title>Office noise generator</title><url>https://imisstheoffice.eu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pelic4n</author><text>For realism, it should integrate people making their calls in the open space, the guy right next to you chewing loudly with an open mouth, the heated design debate occuring 3 desks from you and the salespeople celebrating their bonus with a lot of volume.&lt;p&gt;I do not miss the office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fooblat</author><text>&amp;gt; salespeople celebrating their bonus with a lot of volume&lt;p&gt;This.&lt;p&gt;The most (and least) challenging office I&amp;#x27;ve ever worked in featured a large open plan that had the sales team adjacent to the engineering team. The sales team had a large ship&amp;#x27;s bell and  not only would they ring it for every deal they closed, they would ring it once for every 10k of the deal! That plus they&amp;#x27;re general loudness drove the engineers crazy.&lt;p&gt;First they gave us all noise cancelling head phones but that didn&amp;#x27;t really help.&lt;p&gt;Finally they moved engineering to another office location down the street. Everything changed when we made the new space our own. Still an open plan but with plenty of cozy corners to sit with a laptop and a few well insulated meeting rooms for loud discussions. The big change tho was the atmosphere: nice and quiet!</text></comment>
<story><title>Office noise generator</title><url>https://imisstheoffice.eu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pelic4n</author><text>For realism, it should integrate people making their calls in the open space, the guy right next to you chewing loudly with an open mouth, the heated design debate occuring 3 desks from you and the salespeople celebrating their bonus with a lot of volume.&lt;p&gt;I do not miss the office.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brailsafe</author><text>How am I supposed to work without the guy next to me chewing the egg he just cracked with his mouth open, the guy behind me crunching chips and audibly burping, and the sales guy with a bluetooth earpiece and mechanical keyboard!?&lt;p&gt;I do not miss the office.</text></comment>