If you really want to get fancy, check out these desks: http://www.biomorphdesk.com
You can get them with quiet motors that enable you to go from sitting to standing at the touch of a button.
You can get them with quiet motors that enable you to go from sitting to standing at the touch of a button.
The new metric for startup waste is the amount of time founders and their employees spend on social networking sites. If your CEO is averaging 50 TWEETS per day, you're fucked.
But I agree, spending a few grand on every new employee for a nice working environment, the keyboard they like, a great chair, a good desk, a nice top of the line computer with dual monitors, is just sound business sense. The money spent will disappear into noise by the time you add their annual salary to their line on your expense report. And the work environment will last for years, just upgrade the computer every 18-24 months, and the monitors every 3 years, and you've got a fat and sassy employee that feels like you appreciate them (assuming you actually do appreciate them and treat them with respect in addition to giving them great tools with which to work). And the chair is the single most important part of that equation. I'd never ask anyone to sit 8 hours in a crappy chair.
Schadenfreude indeed.