Today for the first time I went to the new offices, they are pretty impressive after the city centre it will take a little time to get used to where they are. Although once fully populated the environment will be pretty good I think, there have been lots of concerns voiced by people about the travelling but for me the time is about the same as travelling to the old offices so I break even on that score. It’s not so handy for the situation where you just want to pop out to the shops for 10 minutes, but the on site facilities are much better than we already have.
These facilities include a gym, two dance studios (handy when the sys admins have to do the formation headless chicken dance), loads of breakout areas, excellent restaurant facilities (although there is no food available) and at the moment one coffee machine – which seems to be having some teething troubles. Additionally the printers look like they might be able to outsmart a systems administrator, but time will tell on that front.
There are now few plans to make, as most of the equipment has been moved from the old office, there are only two servers still to move these will be moved over the next few days with a bit of luck – one of them I’m moving myself on Friday. After that there is only the shouting to do, something that will be done on Friday evening.