San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensive in Country

Re:San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensi... by BurningFrog on Sunday January 10, 2016 @01:49PM (#10876533)

I think we need to level up the tools one or two more notches, until it's more like being in the same room.

Both because people may slack of when unsupervised, and because you want a team dynamic where you can have a quick 10 minute meeting about stuff, and so on.

Maybe Oculus Rift will be the beginning the end of astronomical SF real estate prices.

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Re:San Francisco Office Rents Pass Manhattan as Most Expensi... by ghaff on Sunday January 10, 2016 @02:13PM (#10876658)

Things have improved but we still don't really have the like whiteboarding (or whatever) together in a conference room. I agree that it's partly the lack of tools--maybe VR will help although this whole "like being in the same room" notion has been around for a long time and it hasn't been cracked.

Some of it is also cultural. If you're not going to have drop by conversations and other serendipitous meetings, you need to be more disciplined about having those conversations anyway even if they wouldn't have historically risen to the level of sending an email or making a call.

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