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Re: Do Technical Writers Deserve Their Own Office?
Subject:Re: Do Technical Writers Deserve Their Own Office? From:David Dvorkin <DDvorkin -at- FRXSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:05:44 -0600
Debra Mazo wrote:
> >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 than developers and work
> more
> >productively in a quiet working space, especially when we performing
> >editing duties.
>
Frankly, you haven't convinced me.
Of course we tech writers need a quiet working space, but so do
developers. So does everyone. If you can convince your upper
management to give tech writers better quarters than developers,
then I want to work there.
David Dvorkin
FRx Software Corporation mailto:ddvorkin -at- frxsoft -dot- com
(303) 741-8280
