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Building a Better Office
xjrfx asks: "I'm in charge of setting up a new office for my company. I want to make the place as worker friendly as possible, comfortable enough that long hours don't seem like banishment to a beige hell. I was hoping to get some input from Slashdot regarding past office experiences, good and bad. What amenities/factors cause you to love or hate your office? If you could create your perfect office how would it work?"
"Did you feel schizoid in open offices or claustrophobic in cube farms? Were you ever forced to be in an office when you would have been more productive on the road, or conversely have you ever had to leave the office to focus on the task at hand? What's more important; a foosball table or a fancy furniture system? Do you want the same desk space for your duration of your employment or do you want to move around depending on your projects?
Our office will be 40-45 people (15 engineers, 7 creative types, 15 biz dev/sales, and some support staff and part-timers as well), but I'm open to opinions from people from much larger or smaller offices."
Our office will be 40-45 people (15 engineers, 7 creative types, 15 biz dev/sales, and some support staff and part-timers as well), but I'm open to opinions from people from much larger or smaller offices."
- Massage Girls in Bikinis
- Flying Fish IPA on tap
- La-Z-Boy Recliners
- Dual 2.5GHz G5s for all
- Sweet aromas all day
- Foot spas under all desks
- Killer game room
- And the soothing sounds of the dead all day long
Oh, you have a budget?People who say "money does not buy happiness" are just people without money trying to make themselves feel better.
Of Yea? Well I'll go build my own office. With hookers and black jack. In fact, forget about the office.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
And a good flyswatter.
pants optional
Er... this is Slashdot... LINUX... not Windows... You like to look out a Linux and see a beautiful view...
"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."
umm...yeah. milton...i'm gonna have to ask you to move your desk down to storage b.
That sounds awful. I thought all the undead programmers worked for Microsoft, not Truevision.
Who do you get to be an expert to tell you something's not obvious? The least insightful person you can find? -J Roberts
Keep those people stimulated
That is the best solution.
Having meeting rooms, bathrooms, and a kitchen is also nice.
Yeah, a bathroom would be nice. The last place I worked we all just pissed on the floor. Lemme tell ya, if you think cubicles offer a good amount of privacy, try taking a shit in one without attracting some attention to yourself.
No one is pissed at you for saying it. But we all know what it really means.
Sales needs a dark place where they can sleep off yesterday's hangover without getting caught, and they need somewhere to sell products that don't exist yet to customers that don't know what they want.
Don't get a public frig, unless you have someone assigned to clean it. It'd be better to just get those individual desk frigs; they don't hold much, but at least everyone would be responsible for their own.
. . . um, i don't even know where to begin with this one. are you speaking from experience here? did this previous job have hot secretaries? if so, are they hiring?