-- Lower office costs - which is really important for startups. Ironically a lot of startups seem to be office focused, but if there's less than 8 people in th

-- Lower office costs - which is really important for startups. Ironically a lot of startups seem to be office focused, but if there's less than 8 people in the company, don't get an office. You don't need the expense and hassle of an office. When you need to meet face to face to hash things out, you can go to someones house, or you can go to somewhere like Panera Bread which often has meeting rooms you can just use. This has the benefit of making those meetings more focused, since the effort to have a meeting is higher than in an office. I'm continually amazed by the companies that have a daily meeting wasting engineers time (never been to a good standup) and how attached they are to this-- it seem to be very management driven, much like the "need" for na office: "IF I can't see them and waste 30 minutes of their time each day, how will I know they are working?" Apparently looking at issue tracking systems doesn't work for bosses.