A good office

At the moment, after a long season of Pandemic Work-From-Home, I wonder if I will ever return to an office. If I do, I hope it will be one as well-considered as Joel “Bionic Office”, rather than an open-office monstrosity.

Most software managers know what good office space would be like, and they know they don’t have it, and can’t have it. Office space seems to be the one thing that nobody can get right and nobody can do anything about. There’s a ten year lease, and whenever the company moves the last person anybody asks about how to design the space is the manager of the software team, who finds out what his new veal-fattening pens, uh, cubicle farm is going to be like for the first time on the Monday after the move-in.

Well, it’s my own damn company and I can do something about it, so I did.