Tech's Top 10 Workspaces

theodp writes "Looking to escape your Initech-like surroundings with your next job? Valleywag has culled its picks for Tech's Top 10 Workspaces from Office Snapshots, where you'll find plenty of other Best-Places-to-Work contenders. So how does your Cubicle measure up to the competition?" Pixar, Netflix, and other places. Makes the Slashdot Fortress look like a hovel even though we replaced the dirt floors last month.

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In bed

[Anonymous Coward]

with the real doll, eating a sandwich playing wii....

PC Load Letter?! WTF does that mean?

[imyy4u2]

Or, if you prefer...

"Time for me to show her my 'O' face. Oh! Oh!"

Re:Nothing can beat my office

[Ford Prefect]

Plus there is nobody to tell me I can't have a beer during afternoon conference calls.

Also, the dress code is much more relaxed - in that clothes are entirely optional!

* prances *

Note: working from home can instil bad habits, such as the above. Remember that other, real offices may look down upon such behaviour, so do remember to wear clothes for external meetings...

Google's Zürich Office

[ibmjones]

Google's Zürich offices also have a fireman's pole.

. . . . . . .riiiiiiiight.

Re:Nothing can beat my office

[Anne_Nonymous]

How else can a fat, hairy, middle-aged man make $300 an hour wearing only his underwear?

a basic truth

[poot_rootbeer]

Remember this: no matter how nice your office space is, if you're an "interactive agency" with an unspellable/unpronounceable name like "Tocquigny", you're going to be the first to go out of business when the Dot-Com Crash 2.0 happens.

Enjoy the pretty scenery while it lasts.

I Love My Workspace

[aquatone282]

Now, if I could just get rid of my co-workers, life would be perfect. . .

Re:Nothing can beat my office

[WheresMyDingo]

Plus there is nobody to tell me I can't have a beer during afternoon conference calls.

You can't have a beer during afternoon conference calls.

Re:Air conditioning and the UK

[CastrTroy]

Just do what we do in Ottawa. No modifications required.

Re:Air conditioning and the UK

[drsquare]

You know, I've heard a lot of people complain about that in the UK. Why on earth haven't they adopted AC yet? I know they have summers there, no?

Our summers last about three days so it's not worth installing AC.

Re:Nothing can beat my office

[Provocateur]

Noise cancelling headphones?

21st century demands meeting-cancelling headphones!

Re:I'll keep my desk thankyouverymuch

[Mab_Mass]

Well, at least you don't have to sit in my cubicle.

(It was like this when I came back from vacation.)

I've been to Tocquigny's office

[gte275e]

I've been to Tocquigny's offices before. I have a couple of friends that worked there. It's pretty funny that about 3-6 months after they moved into those offices, they laid off about 20% of their work force. The offices are really cool though. Well, not necessarily cool but definitely different. It is pretty much nothing but Apple computers, 90% of the people drink Starbucks multiple times a day, half the cars in the parking garage are Volkswagens, people rarely arrive before 10am, a decent amount of guys that speak with lisps, and most people can be found on the weekends at the local art house movie theater wearing a black turtleneck.

Re:Workspace disconnect

[ceoyoyo]

I work in medical imaging. The radiologists like their rooms dark of course. My office (three of us) recently decided that we look much cooler if we turn out the lights too. So now you walk into the dark room and we're each sitting in front of multiple 23" screens.

Do you have a link for a command chair of awesomeness though? That IS missing. And I am definitely looking forward to having a wall (or more) that's a screen.

Re:Workspace disconnect

[StarfishOne]

Do you have a link for a command chair of awesomeness though? That IS missing. And I am definitely looking forward to having a wall (or more) that's a screen.

Here you go.

Chair

Wall/screen