How much money do these new office layouts save? Office space in Santa Clara County is about $34/sq. ft./year, though it's been increasing at a rate of 16% per

How much money do these new office layouts save? Office space in Santa Clara County is about $34/sq. ft./year, though it's been increasing at a rate of 16% per year. The article says offices have, on average, about 150 sq. ft. per person. So that's $5100 per year per worker. It was about 225 sq. ft. in 2010, so an extra $2550 per year. The average software engineer salary in the area is about $125k per year. (The actual cost is more, because of benefits and taxes.) So these new offices only cost 4% of the salary, compared to 6%.