"Is it time to go back to the cubicles?"
Personally, I think cubicles are just about as bad as open-plan offices. I want an office and a door I can close to keep people out when I need quiet.
Personally, I think cubicles are just about as bad as open-plan offices. I want an office and a door I can close to keep people out when I need quiet.
Prior to this reorganizations however, it was miserable. My cube was between a sales guy and a customer support manager who would take support calls on speaker phone, in his cube, with members of his team all crammed in.
I've worked in places with 30+ programmers - what building exists that a company could afford to have 30 private offices??
Things are relatively cheap when you don't try to locate them right in the middle of an overcrowded city.
Now that I think about it, everywhere I've worked there was enough space so that everybody working there at the time could have had an office.
As to where I'm going to find them: I'm probably going to filter out employers that can't make enough money with programmers to afford an office for each of them. I know this removes a non-trivial number of employers from my potential field of employment options.
http://www.executiveinteriors.com/fit.php is just one company.
I'd love that.