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by onewaystreet 4093 days ago
People used to complain about not having a corner office, then about having a cubical while the VPs had offices. Now no one has an office but people still complain. It's impossible for Facebook to give all of its employees offices, so what's the best solution? (People are overreacting to a single sentence by Zuckerberg anyways, the new Facebook headquarters has tons of conference rooms and private nooks.)
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Facebook nets something like $3 billion a year, and has somewhere around 10k employees. You could give every employee a mansion in Iowa (or a small condo in San Francisco) for that amount of money. I doubt allowing employees a little private space will break the bank for them.
It's impossible for Facebook to give all of its employees offices, so what's the best solution?

Why is it impossible?

Because Facebook has thousands of employees. I suppose it might be possible to give everyone a closet sized office.
Microsoft has shared decent size 2 people offices for thousands of developers.