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From: al@gtx.com (0732)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.software-eng,comp.edu
Subject: Re: Offices versus Cubicals
Keywords: programmer productivity, experiments, studies
Message-ID: <540@gtx.com>
Date: 21 Jan 88 14:58:55 GMT
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Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski 839-0732)
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In article <2058@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes:
>
>       Is anyone aware of any empirical studies or experiments to determine
>the impact upon programmer productivity (or any related field) of providing
>offices with walls and doors and as opposed to cubicals?
>
>
I agree, cubicles provide a terrible environment for the kind of
concentration needed for programming.

In the September 1987 issue of COMPUTER, Barry Boehm, in an article 
entitled "Improving Software Productivity", cites two studies that show
that "Private Offices" have provided "productivity gains" of 11%
and 8%.

You'd have to check the references (the book "Programming Productivity"
by T.C Jones, and the article "A Software Development Environment for
Improving Productivity" by Boehm et al, COMPUTER v.17 no.6 June 1984 pp
30-44) to see exactly what the studies mean by "Private Offices"
and what they are being compared to.


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