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| Sal Ammoniac:
--- Quote from: tooki on February 13, 2020, 07:53:36 pm ---Maybe a bug in the forum software, since on my screen, it did, and still does, say #59: --- End quote --- Strange. This is what I see: |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: David Hess on February 13, 2020, 03:49:05 am ---Rent is an immediate ongoing expense. Employee's sanity is speculative and someone else's cost anyway; there are plenty of new employees to hire and as a bonus, they cost less. --- End quote --- This isn't true in some markets where personnel is in high demand and nearly impossible to replace and yet the open plan persists. It's short term thinking and a red flag a company can't see past the numbers and isn't willing to invest. |
| james_s:
So pretty much all public companies and startups. Public companies are all about the next quarter and startups just need to last long enough to either go public or get bought by an existing big public company so the founders can cash out. |
| Alti:
--- Quote from: tooki on February 12, 2020, 07:44:30 am ---(...)Our point is that it’s a false economy to save a few hundred bucks a month on rent, at the expense of a few thousand bucks of productivity (and the employees’ sanity). --- End quote --- An employee is just a source of gains to be extracted, like an office space. The "false economy" maximizes shareholder's profit, the floor tiles wear out. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: Alti on February 13, 2020, 10:23:05 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on February 12, 2020, 07:44:30 am ---(...)Our point is that it’s a false economy to save a few hundred bucks a month on rent, at the expense of a few thousand bucks of productivity (and the employees’ sanity). --- End quote --- An employee is just a source of gains to be extracted, like an office space. The "false economy" maximizes shareholder's profit, the floor tiles wear out. --- End quote --- No, that’d be a real economy. It’s a false economy if it actually costs more, which is what happens if you end up reducing productivity by 20%. That more than erases the savings in rent. |
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