The new Fog Creek office by Joel Spolsky

Monday, December 29, 2008
Remember the Bionic Office? Fog Creek moved in there in 2003. After a couple of years we had outgrown the first office so we expanded to take over the whole floor. By the time our lease ran out in 2008 we had about 25 people in a space built for 18 and we knew we had to move.

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Six Cool Companies to Work For

Six Cool Companies to Work For 

 From cubicle farms to cafeteria food, life at the office can be pretty boring and, at times, annoying. But some companies have figured out that if you get a little creative, and offer a few extra perks, it can go a long way toward keeping employees happy – and more productive. In this day and age of cutbacks and downsizing, that’s pretty extraordinary.

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Bionic Office

Bionic Office 

by Joel Spolsky 
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....

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10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces

10 seeeeeriously cool workplaces

 Physical space matters. It’s easier to be productive, creative and happy at work in a colourful, organic, playful environment than in a grey, linear, boring one. 


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Best Places to Work – Employees' Choice Awards

Best Places to Work – 

Employees' Choice Awards Glassdoor is excited to announce our fourth annual Employees' Choice Awards for Best Places to Work. Our Top 50 winners were selected by the people who know these companies best — their employees!

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Top 50 Best Places To Work – 2012 Employees’ Choice In Glassdoor’s fourth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, which recognize the 50 Best Places to Work for 2012, Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, Facebook, MITRE and Google take the top five spots. More than 250,000 employees sounded off on what it’s like to work at more than 65,000 companies during the past year and shared the good, the bad and everything in betwee


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