Things That Matter in an Office

I'm now working at my second "real job." The two environments are very different but I've grown to appreciate a few office things:

• Free decent coffee
• A small kitchen area
• Offices with walls and doors, just like in Peopleware
• Startups don't have open office environments because they like them, real estate and renovations are a pain and that effort would be better put to making product
• Parking shouldn't require a 10 minute walk, in the cold, in Rochester
• No one should be using a monitor smaller than 24 inches
• Laptops, get them
• Solid State Disks, get them for the laptops
• Wifi, gotta have
• Fast, symmetric net connection for the office, at least 10/10 Mbit for a few people, more for more
• Don't block any of the web. Trust your employees not to surf porn at work and they won't.
• Big desks with lots of space are very handy, reduces the need for lab time with hardware
• GOOD CHAIRS! They don't have to be Aerons (my present chair leaves something to be desired)
• Open 24/7 for use