Ask HN: What does the ideal office include?

[BennyInc]

Our company is calling for suggestions on what we'd like our offices to look like / include / feature.

I think variable height desks, walls that can be drawn on (whiteboard like), large monitors in meeting rooms, small phone booth like boxes for ad-hoc meetings and conference calls, air conditioning, ...

What else would you suggest?

[sheraz]

Silence. Give all of your employees, not just the devs, the joy of silence and focus.

And a nice espressso machine to boot :)