If you are in a top tier team, super competitive, with superb colleagues, share office is a pleasure and you should be super well compensated for the intensity

If you are in a top tier team, super competitive, with superb colleagues, share office is a pleasure and you should be super well compensated for the intensity of it (e.g. Rentech) If your work is clerical, repetitive, stable, you may sacrifice some pay, work happily remotely and sacrifice serendipity and mentoring if you're starting your career It's a tradeoff.