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>Yeah, our Boston office in the Seaport is great for the (mostly younger) employees who live in the city and can walk or take public transit. And, for our custo

by TMWNN 4y ago

>Yeah, our Boston office in the Seaport is great for the (mostly younger) employees who live in the city and can walk or take public transit. And, for our customers coming in for a day or two meeting--which is the main reason we have an office there. For everyone else, our office in the suburbs is much handier It seems to me that Sun got this right two decades ago, when it used its Java Card technology to set up mini offices around the Bay area, at any of which employees could log in and get their personal desktop. <https://www.alamy.com/telecommute14-062-suzukijpg-david-white-of-livermore-ca-works-on-a-sunray-using-his-java-card-at-the-iwork-cafe-sun-is-on-the-leading-edge-when-it-comes-to-telecommuting-more-commonly-called-telework-these-days-because-it-empasses-not-just-working-from-home-but-working-from-anywhere-a-clients-office-a-starbucks-an-airport-lounge-some-13900-sun-employees-43-percent-of-its-workforce-are-involved-in-its-iwork-mobile-work-program-they-work-from-home-some-of-the-time-and-use-any-of-suns-various-flexible-work-centers-when-they-need-an-office-the-company-has-115-flexible-office-locat-image544602504.html https://www.alamy.com/telecommute14-062-suzukijpg-david-whit...> I wonder if Oracle continued this?

ghaff 4y ago
It's largely unnecessary today. "Everyone" has a laptop and, for many of us, 90%+ of what we do day to day is in a browser. The only limits to hoteling is people who really want to have a personal space, people whose job requires specific hardware, people who prefer specific keyboard/monitor/etc. configurations, or people who just prefer to be in a fixed team environment. Urban offices mostly suck if you don't live in the city. But it doesn't make a lot of sense to go into a suburban office if the people you work with aren't there.

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>Yeah, our Boston office in the Seaport is great for the (mostly younger) employees who live in the city and can walk or take public transit. And, for our custo

by TMWNN 4y ago

ghaff 4y ago
It's largely unnecessary today. "Everyone" has a laptop and, for many of us, 90%+ of what we do day to day is in a browser. The only limits to hoteling is people who really want to have a personal space, people whose job requires specific hardware, people who prefer specific keyboard/monitor/etc. configurations, or people who just prefer to be in a fixed team environment. Urban offices mostly suck if you don't live in the city. But it doesn't make a lot of sense to go into a suburban office if the people you work with aren't there.