Suicidal arithmetic

Suppose your company employs 100 people, the average salary is 50000r. Thus, the salary of employees you spend 5 million rubles. per month (in this calculation, taxes are not important).

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

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

7% is a lot or a little?

A cramped environment reduces the productivity of your employees. In other words, you use 5 million inefficiently for salary purposes — in the more comfortable office, the same people would work more productively for the same money. Main factors:
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- high noise level prevents to concentrate
- high concentration of CO ₂ prevents the brain from getting enough oxygen for long-term intensive work
- high density of people contributes to the rapid spread of seasonal infections
- the small area of ​​the table does not allow you to effectively organize the workplace, work with paper documents

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

The total loss is difficult to estimate simply because no one considers 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 with the phrase: “It’s absolutely impossible to work here from nine to five” (“Peopleware”, DeMarco & Lister).

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