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Moving between places
Figure 2.5 Table dividers in a coworking space
to be in control over what sound was present in the nomads' situated, focused work environment. This was further supported by the noise- canceling feature that some types of headphones have. Zane explained:
"Sometimes I'll use them [headphones] just when I want to listen to music and get really deep into writing and that could be in a café, or it could be in a co-working space, or it could even be in the apartment. It's just a great way to take you out of your environment." (Zane, writer and strategy consultant, #11)
What Jacky’s and Zane’s quotes show is that a focused work environment is not the same as a quiet workplace. Both listened to music when using headphones, which was described as ‘setting up a constant’ in the background to drown out any background noise. For a quarter of our informants, the focused work environment did not only concern the physical surroundings but extended towards their digital environment, where
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