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By your logic, the flight school I'm currently attending should have one helicopter per student/instructor pair since we could get more flying done without havi

By your logic, the flight school I'm currently attending should have one helicopter per student/instructor pair since we could get more flying done without having to schedule helicopters. From the point of view of the instructor and student this is a fantastic idea. From a business standpoint it really doesn't make much sense. They do, however, give each student their own headset and view-limiting devices. We could share those, too, they're only used when the helicopter is used. Can you think of reasons why maybe each student doesn't have their own helicopter but does have their own headset (assuming they were cleaned properly after each use and hygiene wasn't a concern)? Those same reasons apply to the office/keyboard situation.

eneveu 8y ago
The cost of an helicopter seems like an obvious reason.
- anHelicopter 8y ago
  It's a helicopter, not an helicopter.
verall 8y ago
I don't think that's their logic at all. The logic is that, compared to the salaries of software engineers and revenues of many tech companies, desks and keyboards are extremely cheap. The cost of a ~$100k engineer spending 10m per day looking for a desk, with 8h day and 200k total employee cost to employer, is ~4k/yr. Paired with the cost the company pays in developer annoyance potentially causing higher turnover or lower productivity , buying more desks and office space is likely the cheaper option. One helicopter per student is obviously not so...
mlthoughts2018 8y ago
Providing one helicopter per student would be cost-ineffective for flight schools. Providing one office per knowledge worker would be cost-effective for companies. Flight schools have a hard time surviving if they make grossly wasteful or negligent expenditures for the sake of politics and optics, because they are low-capitalized businesses with often much lower revenue per employee and less growth opportunity than highly capitalized tech companies. A high capitalized tech company, on the other hand, can piss away money on dipshit open floor plan offices, roof decks, $500,000 Christmas parties, etc., and the executive committee doesn’t care. They have very little incentive to optimize that spending and often make spending choices based on the capricious and whimsical desires of an adult-baby CEO who is more like Veruca Salt than a competent business person.

eneveu 8y ago

The cost of an helicopter seems like an obvious reason.

anHelicopter 8y ago
It's a helicopter, not an helicopter.

verall 8y ago

I don't think that's their logic at all. The logic is that, compared to the salaries of software engineers and revenues of many tech companies, desks and keyboards are extremely cheap. The cost of a ~$100k engineer spending 10m per day looking for a desk, with 8h day and 200k total employee cost to employer, is ~4k/yr. Paired with the cost the company pays in developer annoyance potentially causing higher turnover or lower productivity , buying more desks and office space is likely the cheaper option. One helicopter per student is obviously not so...

mlthoughts2018 8y ago

Providing one helicopter per student would be cost-ineffective for flight schools. Providing one office per knowledge worker would be cost-effective for companies. Flight schools have a hard time surviving if they make grossly wasteful or negligent expenditures for the sake of politics and optics, because they are low-capitalized businesses with often much lower revenue per employee and less growth opportunity than highly capitalized tech companies. A high capitalized tech company, on the other hand, can piss away money on dipshit open floor plan offices, roof decks, $500,000 Christmas parties, etc., and the executive committee doesn’t care. They have very little incentive to optimize that spending and often make spending choices based on the capricious and whimsical desires of an adult-baby CEO who is more like Veruca Salt than a competent business person.