Simple question

[Guest_imported]

Just wondering, what is the business purpose behind special decor (special wallpaper/paint color, different/better furniture, different carpet, bigger room, etc.) in executive offices over everyone else's offices?

I understand that executives have "vision" the rest of us don't, so maybe they need a specially tuned environment to to focus that vision.

Then again maybe it's something else......

 

[garwain]

I would think it's more to the point that the want to show off to the world that they are higher up than the grunts that work for them...

They need the bigger, better office to hold their bigger ego. They are also in a better position than the employees to convince the accounting department to budget the expense of setting up their "supersior" office (can threaten termination, paycut, etc)

 

[Kjonnnn]

Its just a manner of perks. The higher, the more. It also depends on the scale of the company. When I was a lowly secretary, my boss was General Counsel, so I had an fairly good sized office on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, because of her status.

And then again it depends on where u are. At this job, only the VPs get those perks. The managers and supervisors sit among us lowly workers.

 

[Luckyfour]

I'm guessing here but I imagine it's also part of recruitment and having a space to have little meetings with people. Reflect the company success? Who knows.

 

[chiph]

I can tell yall've never been in the military. ;-)

They have an acronym: RHIP, which stands for "Rank Hath It's Privledges".

Chip H.

 

[Antonio1]

Theres a lot of responsability that goes along with that big office and fat salary. If I worked hard to get into upper level management and I didn't have a nice office to show for it, I would be very angry.

 

[Kjonnnn]

Don't hate... educate.

 

[Guest_imported]

Don't let anyone snow you. LuckyFour mad a good point about certain people maybe needing an office large enough so they can hold ad-hoc meetings without having to reserve a conference room, but the rest of it is simply ego gratification.

If you have a suite of offices that are basically identical except for a couple that have more expensive furniture, special carpet, wallpaper instead of paint, etc., then you are looking at arrogance and nothing more. The extra money spent could have been better used elsewhere in the company. These are people who are shouting "Hey, look at me - I'm important and you're not!"

There's no business purpose being served. These idiots, by being at the top of the heap alreadyhave all the important perks: higher pay, bigger bonuses, more vacation, more flexible schedules, etc. They don't need more expensive office furniture.

This kind if thing is a side effect of America's obsession with creating an aristocracy of the rich and famous. These people then develop over-inflated opinions of their own self-importance. Within companies you see 'executive' office suites, 'executive' lounges and sometimes even 'executive' washrooms that the peons are not allowed to enter. Out in the world you have 'executive' housing developments. These people have decided that they're somehow special and better than the rest of us.

Spending more on ertain offices adds nothing to the business - it's simply building monuments to ego.

 

[dreadnaught]

I think it depends on where you work. The place I work the owner of the company to the shop floor clerk all have the same type of cube. We do not have any offices where I work at all. It is nice and I feel overall it is a perk but also a need of some upper management who have to entertain the large clients who expect to be treated that way. It really comes down to what type of business are you in.