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.

Comments

Re:In bed

[pla]

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

Uh, mods? RFTA before casting people into the pit.

The parent post doesn't count as OT (or a troll)... I saw pretty much the same sidebar ads when I visited the page.

Fog Creek

[harlows_monkeys]

They missed Fog Creek.

Re:I'll keep my desk

[ThousandStars]

It's also because they're too stupid to read Joel on Software regarding offices and his own office. Instead, many of them keep doing things that are poison to "knowledge workers," a phrase I hate but that nonetheless describes the kind of people discussed here.

Re:Workspace disconnect

[ThousandStars]

Those places exist, after a fashion. See more here.

I've also been in Microsoft's Redmond campus, where a lot of people having pretty sweet offices.

Re:Air conditioning and the UK

[kesuki]

America is more than just only 250 years old, we also love to tear down old buildings, demolition is a huge business in the states, because it's the easiest way to redevelop land, plus Americans like to spend money on the places they live and work, they like at least the illusion of unlimited wealth. part of the reason the dot com bubble collapsed so horribly wasn't because companies couldn't make money making products etc, it was because they spent loads of money on stuff that killed internal productivity... having a game room, and making employees play games on the weekends with fun outings can really kill a company living on borrowed dollars quickly...

fortunately America is leaking money like a sieve, to the tune of 600-700 billion a year, and the national government is already well past 9 trillion in debt, aiming for the 15 billion cap that the house will automatically raise the budget deficit to without new laws being enacted.

the senate with their 6 year terms actually vote on raising the deficit, but thats because 2/3rds of them can vote yes in an election year, with the other 1/3 voting no because they're up for re-election.