[ale] Anybody know office overhead in Atlanta?

Neal Rhodes neal at mnopltd.com
Thu Sep 19 19:34:02 EDT 2013


Yes, I get all that.  I have a double office in my home.   What I don't
have is the cost justification, and for that I need to get real cost of
commercial real estate with all the associated services. 


On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 17:17 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
> 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.  
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> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
> <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
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>         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
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>         Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
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>         >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
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