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Re: Do Technical Writers Deserve Their Own Office?
Subject:Re: Do Technical Writers Deserve Their Own Office? From:Richard Mateosian <srm -at- CYBERPASS -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:59:13 -0700
>Our Documentation Group is having a hard time justifying
private offices
>for technical writers to Product Development. We need some
strong
>reasons to justify that we are different from developers and work
more
>productively in a quiet working space, especially when we
performing
>editing duties.
You're not different from developers. Everyone needs a quiet space
to
work. Editing requires no greater freedom from distraction than
programming.
For me, it requires less freedom from distraction than writing or
programming, but that's because I'm editing my own work.
At Microsoft, so I've heard, everyone gets an office. This was also true
of
Autodesk when I was last there. Oracle has a mixture of offices and
cubicles,
but in the departments I've been in, the cubicle areas are pretty
quiet. ...RM
