Comment A different perspective (Score 1) 605
Apart from the obvious cost-savings and giving the employees better freedom, this initiative also has a lot of other important perspectives.
As a management student, one major challenge faced is the compromise on flexibility during growth. Typically in a startup, the advantages of flexibility, informal communication, etc., are tremendous. But growth often brings in heirarchy, structure and rigidness into an organisation. To have growth and retain the freshness of a startup has been till today very difficult. This is a move towards that. I've seen some videos of this being implemented in a design office in France. There
the guys come with a laptop and they have a movable trolley/table which they move to an indeterminate work-place. this way they have better cross-department informal communication channels. This way they do not have any binding with heirarchy or structure. It'll make the organisation a lot more flexible.
Another concept is that of focus, as an organisation, Sun should concentrate on building more computers and not on building campuses and
providing good workplaces. - a step towards it.
Most importantly, this goes hand-in-glove with sun's concept of "Network is the computer". there's no point in selling a concept to your customers, if you yourself don't believe in it. This has been practised in Sun for quite long, I believe all fixes go on a huge server that runs a lot of home directories, intranet servers etc., and that gives confidence to ship it to customers.
As a management student, one major challenge faced is the compromise on flexibility during growth. Typically in a startup, the advantages of flexibility, informal communication, etc., are tremendous. But growth often brings in heirarchy, structure and rigidness into an organisation. To have growth and retain the freshness of a startup has been till today very difficult. This is a move towards that. I've seen some videos of this being implemented in a design office in France. There
the guys come with a laptop and they have a movable trolley/table which they move to an indeterminate work-place. this way they have better cross-department informal communication channels. This way they do not have any binding with heirarchy or structure. It'll make the organisation a lot more flexible.
Another concept is that of focus, as an organisation, Sun should concentrate on building more computers and not on building campuses and
providing good workplaces. - a step towards it.
Most importantly, this goes hand-in-glove with sun's concept of "Network is the computer". there's no point in selling a concept to your customers, if you yourself don't believe in it. This has been practised in Sun for quite long, I believe all fixes go on a huge server that runs a lot of home directories, intranet servers etc., and that gives confidence to ship it to customers.
