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From: polack@aero.ARPA (Alexander J. Polack)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.software-eng,comp.edu
Subject: Re: Offices versus Cubicals
Message-ID: <23931@aero.ARPA>
Date: 27 Jan 88 16:59:04 GMT
References: <2058@pdn.UUCP>
Reply-To: polack@aero.UUCP (Alexander J. Polack)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Keywords: programmer productivity, experiments, studies

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 think in 1981 TRW conducted a study that demonstrated 40% productivity
improvement when the working environment is properly setup. Part of the setup
was providing individual offices to the software engineers.

Now, not all of the improvement came from the "individual office" setup,
but it did help.

For better details you should contact Dr. Barry Boehm at TRW.

	- Alex Polack