Google was one of the first major Silicon Valley offices to open an engineering office in Seattle, and in fact Google now has two engineering offices – one downtown in Seattle, and one in the suburb of Kirkland, WA.
Although technology companies may have popularized the open office environment, now almost all office tenants are adopting aspects of it.
First, notes about PortableApps.com: "At portableapps.com, you can find an office suite (Open Office), Firefox, Gaim (instant messaging), Sunbird, and other programs that run from any flash drive.
We have an open office here.
Harmony can export Google documents to Office, Open Office, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT, and image formats.
The major products widely used are Linux and FreeBSD operating systems, Apache Web server, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, Open Office and other office suites, BIND and Send mail and so on.
The pledges they are after include things like mentoring, Open office hours, access to office spaces, funding, training, etc etc.
Adobe PDF files (PDF) Microsoft Office files (Word DOC/DOCX, Excel XLS/XLSX, Powerpoint PPT/PPTM/PPTX) Libre Office & Open Office files (ODT, ODS, SXW, STW) WordPerfect files (WPD) Text-files (RTF, TXT, CSV).
An open office plan addresses closed office concerns, but at the sacrifice of productivity.
In the "Open office space - Closed offices" study at Rainmaking Loft, we found that startups working in shared spaces have a similar Design Quality and take on comparable risk.
