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When I was hired, my firm had its main office in the suburbs. I felt pretty good about the location and environment and purchased a house nearby. At that time, many employees and managers lived in the area. Since then, the firm has changed hands, and the original office space, as part of an ineffectual cost-saving move, has been reduced in half. Ineffectual because the new lease no longer included utilities. The "savings" were spent opening a new office in the city, and a bunch of young sales hires were made for a small bullpen type office. There are no cubicles in the city, and the few offices are reserved for a handful of lucky first movers. Now they are looking for cost savings again. The firm's plan is to shut down the office in suburbia because "having everyone in the same location inspires the best ideas."
Can someone point to some research (e.g., from HBR [Harvard Business Review] or similar) indicating that R&D teams may be best served by being in distraction-free environments separated from the gossip and hubbub of sales? Or that accommodating workers who want to be away from the city may save on labor expenses and employee turnover?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday August 17 2017, @12:59AM
Your boss might have had a good Idea.
When tech support has to deal with a bunch of disinterested engineers to get past a customer's problem it seldom speaks well of the product or the company.
Perhaps you boss wanted to keep YOU from distracting those engineers. (How do you know it wasn't them who turfed you?)
Or maybe he could see your talents might greatly help out tech support, and thereby improve the end product.
Nothing like listening to the same damn questions over and over and over again to assure that such problems will be cleaned up in the next release and NOT JUST by some documentation change. Explaining a sow's ear a few times makes for a better purse design.
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