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From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Office Survey Results..................
Message-ID: <6791@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 17:03:49 GMT
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In article <6478@pdn.paradyne.com> reggie@dinsdale.paradyne.com (George W. Leach) writes:
>     There was one AT&T facility I saw in Piscataway, I think it was 
>Knightsbridge, where they piped white noise onto the floor to mask the
>noise.  This had a major impact on noise in the cubical area.

In "Peopleware", DeMarco and Lister assert that white noise and other
noise-vs-noise techniques such as music, etc, occupy the creative
side of the brain, leading to very mechanical solutions.
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