[ale] Anybody know office overhead in Atlanta?

Wolf Halton wolf.halton at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 17:17:39 EDT 2013


Keep the compute power in a colo somewhere, and let the developers work
from home.  pay the devs more and save the office expenses. :-)  An extra
$K per month per person would be pretty good incentive.


Wolf Halton

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> I don't know the answer to your question, but don't forget to consider the
> "instant" office companies like Regus where you pay a flat rate and they
> provide all the real estate, building, infrastructure, staff, receptionist,
> janitor, etc.
>
> I have no idea how economical they are.
>
> If rolling your own, I would imagine prices would vary dramatically
> depending on whether you're in the city of Atlanta $$$, Buckhead $$$,
> Alpharetta $$, Norcross $$, Cumming $, etc.
>
> It would probably also depend on how much data infrastructure you need and
> how much equipment (and power) each developer needs.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
>
> >I'm having some discussions regarding working arrangement, and one of
> >the factors is the cost of putting a developer in a cube in Atlanta.
> >Versus office at home.
> >
> >Does anybody have some numbers on the real, fully-loaded overhead of a
> >developer office?   I'm not talking about rent per square foot.   I'm
> >saying the total annual cost of the facility, rent, insurance, power,
> >Data, janitor, etc, divided by the number of developers using that
> >facility.
> >
> >Neal Rhodes
> >MNOP Ltd
> >
> >
>
>
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