Two language tracks, one announcement clock

Caretakers like a single calendar. It looks tidy. In a paired study last year, the English-room hosts liked 10 p.m. announcements because their overseas alumni were awake. The Bahasa room’s kindest voices had already said goodnight after Maghrib and family dinner.

The export showed “announcement reach.” The sitting showed empty chairs. We asked them to keep two clocks for two weeks and to stop pasting the same sentence into both rooms at the same minute.

Side-by-side work is slow on purpose. Ranking the rooms would have been quicker and wrong. If you want a winner, we are the wrong desk; if you want two honest hours, write to us.