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- 24 March, 2010 -
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At work our office is in an open working environment where all the worker bees sit in these nice built-in cubicles which are larger than some offices I’ve had in the past. In the cubicles besides the web team members there are some other graphic designers, writers, photographers, videographers from our creative services department. One downside to these cubicles is every couple of weeks I get a message from someone that the web team is being too loud and interfering with others work or that it looks like the web team just socializes all the time and doesn’t do any work. Unfortunately, I have to explain that working with technology, working online requires collaboration among workers across disciplines to do our best work. In fact a recent study pointed to collaboration being one of the top six attributes of high-ranking women in technology.
A collaborative work style is perceived as a critical success factor in high-technology by both technical men and women, and is consistent with a culture that values innovation, which cannot be achieved without extensive collaboration. Collaboration is both a critical source of success but also a great source of career satisfaction.
Collaboration = Socializing = Loudness = Innovation = Satisfaction
