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> Cost-effectiveness of open floor plans

Office space is expensive, labor is cheap. That's the conclusion. It's the economy, stupid.

[normloman]

Programmers are also expensive. If open offices are lowering their productivity, every manager in tech is penny wise and pound foolish.

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> Programmers are also expensive.

I seriously doubt that. I see so much wasted programmer time in my daily work. It must be a cheap commodity.

[steverb]

As a manager in tech, it's not my fault.

I've complained so much about the open office layout that I've been told point blank to shut up about it.

[tzakrajs]

Good thing you love your job.

[steverb]

I love my people. I took the management gig because I was tired of seeing other people do it poorly. I figured I could do it at least little better than they were.

Results are currently mixed. :-)

[greenyoda]

Software developers are much more expensive than the office space they occupy. For the price of a developer, say $100K a year ($8333 per month), you can get rent an entire luxury apartment in NYC. A hundred square feet of space in an office building (the size of a single-person office) is a tiny fraction of that.