I complained that the office was too distracting, got some coworkers on my side, and we started talking to our manager about working from home. We got permission to work from home once a week, which wasn't enough, but a good start.
I had a talk with the founder of the company about how it was hard to focus in the office (especially with the open floor plan) and it was difficult to do tasks A, B and C in a timely manner--I mentioned specific things that he knew I was working on and were very important to our clients.
After a while, I quit the job and joined a remote-first company. In my exit interview, I cited the open floor plan and difficulty focusing as one of the reasons I quit. I've kept in touch with old coworkers and it sounds like the company is slowly coming around to remote work, as the employees continually demand it.
That's about all you can do. Raise the topic in conversation with management, and if the company won't accommodate you (at the expense of its own best interests), then leave for somewhere better.
i will try first talking to co workers to try and get them on board then later push it to management. If i'm alone in this i guess management will find it hard to grant me a remote work space.
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I had the same problem. Here's what I did:
I complained that the office was too distracting, got some coworkers on my side, and we started talking to our manager about working from home. We got permission to work from home once a week, which wasn't enough, but a good start.
I had a talk with the founder of the company about how it was hard to focus in the office (especially with the open floor plan) and it was difficult to do tasks A, B and C in a timely manner--I mentioned specific things that he knew I was working on and were very important to our clients.
After a while, I quit the job and joined a remote-first company. In my exit interview, I cited the open floor plan and difficulty focusing as one of the reasons I quit. I've kept in touch with old coworkers and it sounds like the company is slowly coming around to remote work, as the employees continually demand it.
That's about all you can do. Raise the topic in conversation with management, and if the company won't accommodate you (at the expense of its own best interests), then leave for somewhere better.
i will try first talking to co workers to try and get them on board then later push it to management. If i'm alone in this i guess management will find it hard to grant me a remote work space.