Re:We're ditching the office completely
by djrogers on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @10:33PM
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According to the article, every employee gets the team perk you seem so upset about...
I'm sorry if I "seem upset", I don't work there or anything.
My main point is just that the article content "those employees who were in our office are now in company-paid co-working space" is pretty different from the headline "we're ditching the office completely".
Having an office and granting perks to those who previously used the office (or everyone) doesn't have any redistributional effects as long as it doesn't incentivize prior non-office employees to join coworking spaces.
But apart from that, I'm with you in your conclusion that an equal amount of money for possible work environments is probably the most structure agnostic solution.
You didn't stop having an office. You just realised you could save money by sending the few guys using your office to a shared space.
I think I'd be a bit miffed if I was a non-office employee there - suddenly the old 'office guys' are getting this 'team perk' that doesn't apply to me.
It would be more in the spirit of the whole 'openness' thing to say "here's $X, spend it on office space, coffee, whatever to improve whatever working environment you choose".