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Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by MaulingMonkey »

xixixao wrote: post #78
tckr wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, so I would ask an architect: build me an office that can scale. What would they answer? We have shitty offices because there is no solution, so allow me to at least say: if you want me to work in your office (which I think is not necessary at all) build me one, that suits my productivity and not the constraints of the real estate market. Realistically, as a company you would start with one floor, and once it fill…

An open plan office, starting with 50 desks, can grow to 75 or even 100, by gradually increasing desk density. You cannot evict ppl from floors you own on the spot. Growth is hard to predict. Hence the dream office will stay a dream unless you are working for a no-growth company doing the same things all the time.

Increasing density isn't unique to open office plans - add more people to the same room.

Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by ensiferum »

My previous office where I worked is one of the best ever.

- office rooms (usually 1 team or half a team per room, about 3-4ppl)

- electric tables for everyone (so you can work either seated or standing)

- very nice kitchen, 2 * cooking facilities, 3 fridges, espresso machine

- sauna + showers + lockers and towels

- laundry facilities

- music room with bass, guitars, eletric drums, keyboards. also combined as VR room

- games lounge with big ass screen and some consoles and PC with proper "rally setup"

- big library with sofas

- quiet room with 2 beds

Additionally:

- occupational nurse comes to the office once a month

- physiotherapist comes to the office once a week for some exercise

- Monday morning starts with a common breakfast

and of course some very smart people!

Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by MeneDev »

tckr wrote: post #90

A lot of commenters wished for single person rooms. As a remote worker, I'd say: if I want to work solo (for some time), why go to the office in the first place? I'd stay at home or go to a coffee shop. I could imagine having a second floor, that has more privacy features: single person offices, rooms for private conversations, power napping, nursing mums, yoga. What do you think?

+1 for power napping

Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by tckr »

ensiferum wrote: post #92

My previous office where I worked is one of the best ever. - office rooms (usually 1 team or half a team per room, about 3-4ppl) - electric tables for everyone (so you can work either seated or standing) - very nice kitchen, 2 * cooking facilities, 3 fridges, espresso machine - sauna + showers + lockers and towels - laundry facilities - music room with bass, guitars, eletric drums, keyboards. also combined as VR room…

Wow. Sauna Where was this?

Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by dagw »

tckr wrote: post #58
loteck wrote: post #36

As a technologist working at a company that helps businesses design & build office space, one item I notice always lacking in conversations about office space is growth. The article brushes off growth by suggesting you just open a new office when you've grown. This suggestion lacks understanding of how growth happens. It's rarely an instant doubling of headcount. Most organic growth creeps up. So let me invade your "…

Ok, so I would ask an architect: build me an office that can scale. What would they answer? We have shitty offices because there is no solution, so allow me to at least say: if you want me to work in your office (which I think is not necessary at all) build me one, that suits my productivity and not the constraints of the real estate market. Realistically, as a company you would start with one floor, and once it fill…

Realistically, as a company you would start with one floor, and once it fills up, rent another in the same building.

Unless you are in a really unattractive area the chances the there is an empty floor in the same building just sitting around waiting for you is quite unlikely.

We could rent an ware house

I certainly don't want to work in the parts of town where warehouses are easily available no matter how nice the office. I would much rather walk/bike/short bus ride to a slightly crowded office in the center of town than drive to an office out in the middle of nowhere no matter how nice, but that's just me.

Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by Sammi »

tckr wrote: post #94
ensiferum wrote: post #92

My previous office where I worked is one of the best ever. - office rooms (usually 1 team or half a team per room, about 3-4ppl) - electric tables for everyone (so you can work either seated or standing) - very nice kitchen, 2 * cooking facilities, 3 fridges, espresso machine - sauna + showers + lockers and towels - laundry facilities - music room with bass, guitars, eletric drums, keyboards. also combined as VR room…

Wow. Sauna Where was this?

Sounds like Finland :)

Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by mjevans »

smikhanov wrote: post #70
tckr wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that is exactly my point. We have shitty offices, because they are build to suit the real estate market not productivity. But there are examples which are horrible by design, and not because the property value was important: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/11/30... (first pic)

The employer's financial cost of the lost productivity of an average developer in an open space office is much lower than developers like to think, and much, much lower than the cost of the office with private rooms. By placing people in the open space, companies pay almost three times less in office rental costs ( https://www.mikhanov.com/2015/06/08/open-plan-offices-creati... ). In other words, unless you're Sebast…

I think I might honestly prefer to work for someplace that was remote first (only?), and maybe had a day or two out of the week when employees would actually go in to the office if there were planned meetings / group training / team time / etc.

Clarifying my point: the office is time shared within the company. Different teams would have different days /in/ the office.

Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by _nalply »

tckr wrote: post #83
carlob wrote: post #59

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> a junior, a medior and a senior first time I hear the word medior. It's a fun neologism, but it's technically very wrong in Latin: senior and junior are comparatives (older and younger), so medior would be more medium?

We use it in Germany quite regulary. It's the experience level in the middle between senior and junior.

Perhaps you live near Netherlands? Here in a German speaking part of Switzerland I never heard that word.

Re: Let me take you through my dream office

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Post by chinathrow »

noir_lord wrote: post #57
jay_kyburz wrote: post #53

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I would be interested to hear what hardware you will buy. What's your ideal hardware? Just a MBP or something more interesting?

Was offered a tricked out iMac or similar but I'm a linux user through and through so I'll self-build. Current plan is Ryzen 1700(possibly X)/32GB DDR4 (2x16GB, board supports 4 slots so can upgrade if needed) (going to need a lot of virtualisation capability to handle dealing with multiple legacy systems, windows for interop and 8 cores with 16 threads at that price is a hard match from Intel), 500GB SSD with 1TB WD…

> MS Ergo 4000 keyboard and a decent mouse.

Currently typing on one of these. I hate the loud clicking noise though, especially with co-workers around me. Are there any similar but less noisy versions of it?

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