In general I've found that tech companies don't accommodate introverts well. I'm speaking from experience and talking with my fellow tech geeks.
They'll pay it lip service with a quiet room or two that do double duty as nap rooms and mom's rooms, and than wonder why their people are sick all the time - "But we have quiet rooms for the introverts to go to..." - if the people who need them on a daily, constant basis can't have them, they are only for show. If I have to pick up and move half or more of my workspace every day to get peace and quiet, I'm not being accommodated, I'm being patronized and abused, made to feel like I'm some sort of freak for simply needing peace and quiet to work in.
The Steelcase quiet workstations are nice to look at, but no company that I've ever worked for has assigned an individual contributor to work in one.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Well...
Date: 2017-05-01 09:58 am (UTC)They'll pay it lip service with a quiet room or two that do double duty as nap rooms and mom's rooms, and than wonder why their people are sick all the time - "But we have quiet rooms for the introverts to go to..." - if the people who need them on a daily, constant basis can't have them, they are only for show. If I have to pick up and move half or more of my workspace every day to get peace and quiet, I'm not being accommodated, I'm being patronized and abused, made to feel like I'm some sort of freak for simply needing peace and quiet to work in.
The Steelcase quiet workstations are nice to look at, but no company that I've ever worked for has assigned an individual contributor to work in one.