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> the main reason employers choose open offices: cost True, but I don't think the ~$10K a year[1] they're saving (per dev) outweighs the productivity loss. [1

• derefr 11y ago
  If companies actually thought in terms of optimizing for ROI per invested employee-salary-dollar, there's so many things they could do. As it is, most companies (big or small) work to a model that feels more like they want to have valuable highly-skilled employees (and so they go to a lot of trouble to acquire them), but they don't actually need anything accomplished that requires 100% output (even for a short period) from said highly-skilled employees. Instead, everyone gets stuck doing lowest-common-denominator tasks. Really, I'm beginning to hold the belief that, for most companies, their highest possible ROI savings would be to just replace their entire programmer workforce with recent college grads, interns, low-bid contracts, or outsourced labor. They don't need anyone with higher skills than that for their junky glue-FOSS-to-do-CRUD problems; they just think they do.