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From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.software-eng,comp.edu
Subject: Re: Offices versus Cubicals
Keywords: programmer productivity, experiments, studies
Message-ID: <2095@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 14:24:30 GMT
References: <2058@pdn.UUCP> <734@astroatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
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In article <734@astroatc.UUCP> johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale) writes:
>I agree that cubicals increase the distraction level, but
>we have 6 people working of various parts of a system-kernel and
>its IO drivers.  From a group point of view, its VERY frequently
>nice to ask "the right person" when he/she is in your office.

    But what about the other four people!  If you are asking "the right person"
a question, then the two of you are now distracting the other four.

    If having offices will keep your people from talking to each other, then
you have far greater problems than this debate will solve :-)



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