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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by PretzelPirate on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:33AM (#15331270)
Yes, our buildings at MS are transitioning to open space. We now have a large room for each team. Everyone has a height-adjustable desk that can be moved around within the room and a pair of good quality headphones.

Each room has its own small meeting room for devs to have long design discussions, and a larger conference room that is shared with the room next door. For making phone calls, there are really nice phone booths in the hallways.

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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by alien_at_work on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:45AM (#15331356)
That's discouraging. MS did a study to determine offices improved productivity, so what happened?
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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by 0xJRS on Monday September 25, 2017 @01:30PM (#15332300)
Open office = more dense work areas = profit
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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by alien_at_work on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:31PM (#15340197)
That is certainly the idea in general but it will depend on how badly it affects worker productivity. It's just strange to see a company do a study, prove that offices produce the best results and still go with a measure that presumably isn't cost effective (else the initial study should have concluded that the difference was well within tolerable loss).
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