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Initially? Not so much. My understanding from when a company I worked for built a building is that bespoke offices would have been cheaper - it's just a few (st
by ArkyBeagle 11y ago
Initially? Not so much. My understanding from when a company I worked for built a building is that bespoke offices would have been cheaper - it's just a few (steel) studs, some sheetrock , wiring and labor.
Cubicles can be quite expensive. The appeal appears to be flexibility.
Actual open offices - no cubicles, just tables - approximate a continuous meeting.
- greenyoda 11y ago"it's just a few (steel) studs, some sheetrock , wiring and labor" It's a bit more than that. For example, individual closed offices require their own ducts/convectors/filters for heating and air conditioning, their own fire sprinklers and smoke detectors, their own overhead lighting fixtures, etc. Also, the walls of offices generally need to be painted (nobody wants bare sheetrock), unlike the walls of cubicles. Cubicles can indeed be expensive, but the labor to build offices is even more expensive. (As someone who works in a private office, I think the increased productivity it gives me is well worth the expense.)
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoAll very true. Still... The HVAC has to be there anyway. It's just a few more ducts. The labor to build offices isn't that expensive, and it's not like the boss is gonna have you some in on Saturday to do it :) People who sell cubicles also sell (or contract) the labor to do installations.