The Great Squishening

[secritcrush]

During the great recession, we gave up a lot of our office space and consolidated into our two main London buildings. Now business is booming and we have no place to grow to (and for some absurd reason we decided to rent out one of our floors to an architecture firm). The powers that be have been asking people to hotdesk and converting breakout

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[carl_allery]

Works for me. Bacon is, of course, an essential requirement for any kind of required activity, mental or physical. ;)

[bedfull_o_books]

Bacon sandwiches are essential for meetings.... (And now I want a bacon sandwich. Dammit.)

Sorry about the squishening. We, too, are being asked to relocate to a bullpen-like space. They say it's so we can collaborate better. (Hah!) I know it's just to up the stockholders' dividend checks or something.

Not sure how we are supposed to get work done once the move happens.

Good luck with all the deadlines.

[sethb]

Isn't there a Fire Marshall who has rules about how many people fit in the space?

[secritcrush]

The legal occupancy limit for fire is usually quite a lot higher than the design occupancy for things like ventilation, lift calcs, toilets, etc. My firm designed out building so all the these things were checked before they decided to up the occupancy.

We've actually unsquished now (which is good because it was pretty dire.)