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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Is it hot in here or is it me?
Keywords: workspace office cubicle status book-review
Message-ID: <3015@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 88 01:02:41 GMT
References: <12849@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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In article <12849@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bks@ALFA.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) writes:
}Anxious managers might be surprised to find that, given a free choice in the
}matter, not everyone will opt for a private office.  Problems involving
}private offices seem to stem from the fact that, historically, they have
}been assigned based on status, not need.

This has been a bone of contention between me and management here for over
three years.  My title merits a private office.  I've turned down every
one offered because the only ones available had no windows.  They can't
understand why I don't consider being stuffed into a small, windowless,
artificially lit box to be a step up.  Given a choice, I'll take sunlight
over privacy.  I'd prefer both. (The fact that people nominally junior to
me have private offices with windows is a sore point, too).

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