Re:The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, ve...
by jrs235 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @02:40PM
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Because moving to a bigger office has a whole bunch of costs beyond rent. Costs which negatively affect revenue!
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Re:The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, ve...
by mlthoughts2018 on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:21PM
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But the original hypothetical situation has the baked-in presumption that the company wants to and is able to hire more people. If they can afford to do this via space expansion, they should (for purposes of the bottom line).
If they can afford to hire more but not to expand and give each worker adequate space, it suggests the company is just wrong. They actually can’t afford to hire more and would be creating problems if they do. Rather, reinvest what would have been spent on crammed headcount into the ability to expand spatially and later increase headcount with adequate space.
If a company, even a sink-or-swim growth mode start-up, believes it needs to hire people faster than it can provide minimally adequate space for them, then the company is just wrong. That is just not a thing.