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Having my back to glass would drive me insane, and evidently all of the offices are like that: http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853... Check out all of the famous series 7 chairs: http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853... It's got that not-quite-a-prison institutional look to it. That's great if you're running a high school in the poorest district in Mississippi, but give…
Oh and the same room from another angle looks much less like a prison:
http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853...
Having my back to glass would drive me insane, and evidently all of the offices are like that: http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853... Check out all of the famous series 7 chairs: http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853... It's got that not-quite-a-prison institutional look to it. That's great if you're running a high school in the poorest district in Mississippi, but give…
Actually only the two interior offices have that layout. All the other offices have the desk facing a real wall with another behind it, and glass on the left and right. Oh and the same room from another angle looks much less like a prison: http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#52853...
Better recruiting tool: Make an office that female developers want to work in, the male developers will follow.
Um...yeah. I think the biggest draw of any office is the pussy. That's what I care about. But I don't think you'd want female developers. Female sales staff, female secretaries, etc. Nice office, but without nice pussy, what's the point?
Seriously, how does Joel make both ends meet in an expensive place like NYC ? Selling bug-tracking software ?
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How do we resolve "offices with doors that close" with "communal work environment" anyway? Are they just diametrically opposed office philosphies?
Here's the suggestion from Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn : The best adaptation I've seen of the open-office idea is a partial retreat from it. People crave acoustic privacy so they can talk on the telephone, but visual privacy is not as important -- they like being able to see what's going on. This has led to a very satisfactory compromise called "cave and commons". Each office worker has a private office, ofte…
http://smashingtelly.com/2008/08/04/how-buildings-learn-uplo...
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Here's the suggestion from Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn : The best adaptation I've seen of the open-office idea is a partial retreat from it. People crave acoustic privacy so they can talk on the telephone, but visual privacy is not as important -- they like being able to see what's going on. This has led to a very satisfactory compromise called "cave and commons". Each office worker has a private office, ofte…
Interesting Stewart Brand documentary on the utility of buildings. http://smashingtelly.com/2008/08/04/how-buildings-learn-uplo...
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By the time we left the old office, it was costing us 2% of revenue. The new office is not full yet and is somewhat more expensive, but I expect that in the long run our real estate costs will be around 4%-6% of revenue, which is the norm for office-based workforces. The specific upgrades we paid cash for will probably end up costing 1% of an employee's salary, averaged out over everything, over the lifetime of the l…
Just curious, how come your profile is written in 3rd person? Is this really Joel Spolsky, or a representative?