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The "need" for private offices for developers is based on an evaluation: the cost of interruptions vs the benefit of improved communication among the staff. I
by michael_dorfman 17y ago
The "need" for private offices for developers is based on an evaluation: the cost of interruptions vs the benefit of improved communication among the staff. I doubt there's a "slam-dunk" case to be made for either side.
- DenisM 17y agoIn PeopleWare authors pose that productivity is the best when people working on the same project sit together, is average when people sit alone and is the worst when people with unrelated tasks sit together. Ergo, if you are willing to move your "location" as often as you change tasks it's best to sit together.
- michael_dorfman 17y agoOr, you make sure that tasks assigned to a group of people stay "related"-- which shouldn't be hard to do, it most large organizations.
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- snprbob86 17y agoAnd Google makes this pretty easy because your home directory and all of your work lives in the cloud.
- enneff 17y agoCan we please say "on their intranet" instead of the misleading "cloud" buzzword? (FWIW Googlers call it the "intranet" too.)
- prodigal_erik 17y agoCan we please say "on their network" instead? That's a perfectly good word that already means "not the whole internet", and we don't need another.
- enneff 17y ago"Intranet" is a pretty standard and inoffensive term for a company-wide network, isn't it?
- snprbob86 17y agoI was a Google intern...
- chollida1 17y ago> sit together Does "sit together" mean in an open environment or just in the same hallway within their own offices. I didn't think they specified here.