cabling cost
“significantly north of £100k”
For a big (not vast) one floor office ?
I’m assuming a cabling cost that high includes cost for ripping open floors and walls. If not <joke>I assume Monster cables were used</joke>.
A decade (or more) ago our current office site was expanded. 3 floors, 800 sqm each. I actually managed to convince the higher ups to to have raised floors *everywhere*. Additional cost was 75K € compared to the tiling they wanted to get in first. The savings over the years (moving offices, reorgs, at least once a year, some years a lot more often) dwarf that.
What still irks me, if the umpteenth move is coming up, is the remark “Can’t we just use wifi ?” when I mention the relatively low cabling cost. They never seem to remember that recabling also includes power points for their docking stations and monitors.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
