Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!POURNE@MIT-MC From: POURNE%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Employee Environments Message-ID: <17633@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 02:32:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17633 Posted: Fri Mar 23 02:32:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:55:39 EST Lines: 12 From: Jerry E. PournelleALAS! 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...