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Subject: Employee Environments
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 02:32:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 02:32:00 1984
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From:  Jerry E. Pournelle 

ALAS!  I can show you studies that demonstrate great increases
in productivity if you enclose each engineer in a cubicle.  I
can also show you studies that show great increases in
productivity if you knock down all th partition walls and put
all the engineers in one big bull pen.
	It's entirely possible that the relevant variable is
"they paid attention to us!" --- anyway, alas, the results of
all the studies on productivity and work space design contradict
each other.  It depends on which consultants the managers have
paid a lot of money to as to what they do...