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I think open shared office spaces are an effect of high rents in Sillicon valley and major capital cities. Startups having limited capital rarther spending it o
by acd 9y ago
I think open shared office spaces are an effect of high rents in Sillicon valley and major capital cities. Startups having limited capital rarther spending it on employees salaries getting more head count. Shared space is not effective for concentrating during coding.
I doubt shared spaces has been evaluated for effectiveness versus personal office. Shared spaces may be a cause of people working remote.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoIs there any advantage to a shared space? It seems like the sort of solution where you're working solo anyway, so there's no reason to have the team all there...
- cwkoss 9y agoFor small teams, the ability for people to jump into a conversation which began without them can have value. If you are a 6-person team, and when two engineers say "Hey, we'll probably need a design for this", the designer can hear this (if not in deep concentration) and join the conversation without any slack messages needed. This sort of 'free triage' has some value, not sure if it's net advantage when accounting for distraction costs though. Price is probably the clearest advantage: you can fit more people into an office without walls.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoSorry, I didn't mean an open office space - I mean literally a shared space, where you hotel desks, etc., and are surrounded by non-employees.
- cwkoss 9y agoIf you're solo programming, can be nice to have other people to have lunch with or discuss technical problems, but depends a lot on the atmosphere of the shared space and how sociable you are.
- OnlyRepliesToBS 9y agoNotice there are still offices and they are occupied... just by other people. The devs and workers are still just in a big pit. It's designed FOR people control, not ABSENCE due to capital.