Killer arithmetic

    Let's say your company employs 100 people, the average salary is 50,000 rubles. Thus, you spend 5 million rubles on employee salaries. per month (taxes are not important in this calculation).

    You save on everything, so in your office there is 3m 2 per employee . For rent you pay 700 rubles / m 2 , or 210 thousand rubles per month.

    And now, let's increase the office area, and not even to 6m 2 per person prescribed by sanitary standards, but to “luxurious” 8m 2 . Rental costs will increase by 350 thousand, or 7% of salary costs.

    Is 7% a lot or a little?


    A cramped environment reduces the productivity of your employees. In other words, you are inefficiently using 5 million that go to paychecks - in a more comfortable office, the same people would work more productively, for the same money. Key factors:

    - a high noise level makes it difficult to concentrate
    - a high concentration of CO 2 prevents the brain from getting enough oxygen for long-term intensive work
    - a high density of people contributes to the rapid spread of seasonal infections
    - a small desk area does not allow you to efficiently organize a workplace, work with paper documents

    In addition to low daily productivity, we get headaches, a more frequent absence due to illness, allergies and sometimes even asthma. For savings on rent, your employees “pay extra” with their health.

    Total losses are difficult to evaluate simply because no one counts them. I suppose that they are in the range from 5% to 50% (ie, from 250 thousand to 2.5 million), and in the worst case they are described by the phrase: “From nine to five it’s absolutely impossible to work here” (Peopleware, Demarco & Lister).

    I am sure that for an office in which an employee has 3m 2 , these losses will definitely be more than 7%.

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