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This topic seems to appear quarterly here. I've commented on it before. If they are as bad as we think they are, there must be a "closed office," arbitrage pla
by motohagiography 8y ago
This topic seems to appear quarterly here. I've commented on it before.
If they are as bad as we think they are, there must be a "closed office," arbitrage play where you can beat other startups with more adult interior design.
- toyg 8y agoFog Creek did it, and it seems to have paid off for them. The problem is that, for most businesses, cash is king. Hard-to-measure productivity improvements will invariably lose to immediate financial rewards.
- anildash 8y agoYeah, we've had a lot of success with this at Fog Creek, but the overall diagnosis is correct: most companies make false optimizations for short-term gain over long-term. Sometimes it's understandable because resources are constrained, but other times it's truly inexplicable.