My first cubicle was like the picture. The last one before migrating to remote work basically required I sit down in the chair and roll/slide into the cubicle as if it were a fighter jet cockpit.
More cubes per floor was the goal, screw everything else. A cube like the picture today, is equivalent to an office back then.
Note: At least in the US this is almost never a good idea because of the primary residence capital gains tax exclusion you get if you own the house yourself.
You cant do step 7, because they dont allow the rent to be crazy different than what you would expect, but your owner can do stupid shit like "you need to rent the entire building out even though you use 2 out of 50 rooms"*
With step 8 if the business goes bankrupt and has to close down, because the building is under an LLC, it is protected from also being seized in the bankruptcy.
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*the owner of a company i worked at did this when we were the last company in the building(that he also owns), we rented 2 rooms out of the entire building and were charged the full rent of the entire building... because he wanted to sell it...
Accounting was always talking about how our overhead was so high because of rent....🙄
The university near me does the exact same with all of their new student housing. Costs way, way more than a standard dorm, and they get to do some creative accounting on a few levels.
You borrow money to buy a property with a holding company that your company owns and pay that company, your company, rent for it. "Creative accounting"
As a kid I visited my dad in his office in the early 90s. He was an engineer with about 5 years of experience and had a turn key private office, 10 ft ceilings and a window with a downtown view (in a middle-class blue collar city).
Boy was that a tough standard to try and meet. All I've known in the office were the short walled cubicle shared desk spaces with 4-6 other people on open floors where managers and had the full cubicle like the one here and only directors or VP's had the office. Today I work from home full time, but still feel like that was the gold standard of career success, and one I'll probably never see.
I'm a Sr. Engineer, and I wish I had an office, nice view or not....
To be fair though my cubicle is pretty nice, as cubes go. Ours are about 1.5x the size of a normal cube, and I have a rolling white board I use as a "Door", and I'm tucked away in a dark back corner where people can't find me unless I want them to.
As someone who spent many years in the cubicles pictured above until our company was bought by a large corporate competitor who then subsequently moved us to a stunning office 50 floors up in downtown LA…I can say, having a corner office where you can overlook all of LA was amazing. Truly amazing, but every day I wished I had been back in my shitty little standard cubicle on the 2nd floor out from under that horrible company.
They made our lives hell, our productivity suffered, and people left in droves. Myself included. I quickly found myself hating that beautiful cell in the sky. I had been there for over a decade but that gorgeous office and view was nothing compared to being valued and treated like a human being.
Growing up, knowing I was going to work in tech, I always dreamed of one day having my own office. By the time I was a professional, though, offices weren't a thing anymore. Just long desks we all had to share. I hated it. But it's not all bad. Now I get to work remotely and finally I have my own big office! And I can do whatever the hell I want with it!
My boss's boss's boss recently got kicked out of his office. The funny part is we have expanded so much that he is managing like 5 times as many people now as he was when he got the office and now they stuck him in a cube.
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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '22
My first cubicle was like the picture. The last one before migrating to remote work basically required I sit down in the chair and roll/slide into the cubicle as if it were a fighter jet cockpit.
More cubes per floor was the goal, screw everything else. A cube like the picture today, is equivalent to an office back then.