Ambienti e produttività: per softwaristi scatenati

clipped from www.joelonsoftware.com There's a lot of evidence that the right kind of office space can improve programmer productivity, especially private offices. Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers. If I have to compete at New York salaries against Bangalore salaries, I'm going to need those superstars, so when people come in for an interview, I need to see jaws on the floor. It's about drama. Power. Every desk has twenty, that's right, twenty outlets. Four of them are colored orange and have uninterruptible power coming off of a UPS in the server closet, so you don't need a UPS in every office. Every office has its own 8-port network switch, so you can plug in your laptop and your desktop and your Macintosh and that old computer you keep around to read Joel on Software when your main computer is rebooting to install today's Windows Update, and still have 3 ports left over

Per ogni scrivania ci sono venti (diconsi venti) prese elettriche, di cui quattro colorate di arancione perché garantite dall'UPS aziendale. E su ogni scrivania un hub ethernet a otto porte.

Il tizio che ha arredato così la sua azienda ha detto: quando qualcuno importante viene a fare un colloquio per essere assunto qui, voglio che le mascelle gli cadano a terra...!