I used to work for a company that moved to a new building built to their specification. It was a concrete tilt-up, and each pair of slabs had one window divided down the middle, and no window on the other side. So there were two, half windows on one seam, then no windows on the next, then two, etc. The very end was all glass. The idea was that the president would get the all glass office, VP’s would get a whole window, department managers would get a half window, and everybody else got nothing. The problem was that they built the building before realizing that there weren’t enough windows to make that work. They spent three months wrangling over what to do. Finally, the VP of R&D said that he spent most of his time in the lab, so he didn’t need any windows. So he got an office with no windows, and everything else fit. When the next layoff came, they laid off more than a quarter of all the employees. The only supervisory person at any level to get the axe was the VP of R&D.
I used to work for a company that moved to a new building built to their specification. It was a concrete tilt-up, and each pair of slabs had one window divided down the middle, and no window on the other side. So there were two, half windows on one seam, then no windows on the next, then two, etc. The very end was all glass. The idea was that the president would get the all glass office, VP’s would get a whole window, department managers would get a half window, and everybody else got nothing. The problem was that they built the building before realizing that there weren’t enough windows to make that work. They spent three months wrangling over what to do. Finally, the VP of R&D said that he spent most of his time in the lab, so he didn’t need any windows. So he got an office with no windows, and everything else fit. When the next layoff came, they laid off more than a quarter of all the employees. The only supervisory person at any level to get the axe was the VP of R&D.