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Sigh! Why can't more people listen to Joel, read Peopleware[1] and design offices similar to fogcreek[2]? If Joel can do it at NYC rents, I am sure others shoul
by prakash 19y ago
Sigh! Why can't more people listen to Joel, read Peopleware[1] and design offices similar to fogcreek[2]? If Joel can do it at NYC rents, I am sure others should not find it that difficult.
[1]http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html -- some other great book recommendations in there
[2]http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html
- mechanical_fish 19y agoYep. This article is painful to read: they propose to eliminate cubes by switching to... open plans and shared tables! Out of the frying pan, into the fire. My home office has a Kinesis keyboard and three monitors placed at the proper height. Now they propose to "improve" my office arrangement by forcing me to use a laptop all day? I'll stick with telecommuting, thanks. If I'm going to work at the equivalent of a table in Starbucks, why wouldn't I just work at Starbucks? There's natural light, and the coffee tastes better. And check out this line from the article: "Cubicles can prompt odd behavior... It is hard to see if colleagues are busy, so some cube-dwellers will send emails to a neighbor about a simple question that could have been answered more easily in a conversation." Yes, the real problem with cubicles is that they make it too difficult to break people's concentration! "Where people in jobs such as marketing tend to want open offices... employees in product groups favor cubes." No kidding.