The last 4 years I’ve been in a windowless office. It doesn’t bother me anymore. However, they are renovating and I will need a new office. My two options are a brand new windowless office with new furniture in a great location or an office with a window next to another office with someone who can be slightly aggravating. I’m crazy not to take the window, right? Some additional benefits of the windowed office will be radio reception and it looks out on the day care playground so if I ever have kids I can watch little Johnny or Sally on the playground.
Anyone have any thoughts? If you had to choose from total peace and quiet but no outside world or a little annoyance overlooking the real world, what would you choose? Whatever I decide could possibly be my office for the next 25 years so it’s kind of a big decision…
I have a window. It’s a huge window. It’s the only office with a window on our entire second floor. In the summer, people come in and say, “Wow, your office is really hot.” In the winter, people come in and say, “Wow, your office is really cold.” On dreary days, people come in and say, “Wow, what a depressing view.” On sunny days, people come in and say, “Wow, your office is painfully bright.” In each of those instances, my response is, “You’re right - but I’m the only person with a sweet f’king window.”
Window. Always take the window. They are like prizes in corporate America. Even with a crappier desk you will still look like you have more power than the person in the interior office.
I’ve never had an office but I once had a cube with a window. I loved it. Sometimes I just turned my chair and watched what was going on outside for a few minutes. Sometimes an accident would happen right below me.
Currently I am in a super open concept office. Everyone has a window view. That part is good but you have zero privacy.
Always the window. My office has a private entrance door and two corner windows. The doctor in the office next door has no window, no access. I love my office and wouldn’t give up that window for anything.
I would take the window not because of power or anything like that, but just because I love natural light and I enjoy looking out the window from time to time. However, if the person next to you is going to make you miserable, then you have to decide if it’s worth it or not. It would be worth it to me since I value the window and I don’t know how bad this person may be, but maybe you don’t given the circumstances.
Window. Always the window. It could look out onto a brick wall above the dumpster, and I’d still take the window. It could look out into Wayne Newton’s apartment, (I believe he walks around naked with the curtains open as he sings Danke Schein slightly off key. That’s what I’ve been told anyway). I would still take the window.
I have a window in my cube now. I rarely actually look outside, but it is just brighter than any non-window spots. My manager has an office with no window. I’d rather have the cube with a window than an office without.
I always wanted the window until I got the window. It’s a great view, looking over downtown Atlanta, 24th floor. It’s also a heat sink. I have a fan, and I have to shut the blinds, and it still gets 1000 degrees in the afternoon.
