Which office wins once you price the commute?
Every location wins on something. The way to compare them is not to weight opinions but to price the gaps: what would you pay to fix each drawback? Then the arithmetic is honest and the argument is about the prices, which is where it belongs.
Operations Intermediate Addressing Tradeoffs Pro engine
After you install, this is the model to open.
Where Should the Office Be?
- In your spreadsheet, click the Sortia icon in the strip of icons down the right-hand edge. No strip? Click the arrow at the bottom-right to open it. You can also use Extensions, then Sortia, then Open Sortia.
- Click Start from a template and put that name in the search box.
- Pick the card with that name and click Load this template. It arrives on a new tab with real numbers already in it.
This one runs on a Pro engine, and every free install includes five full-quality runs on your own numbers, shared across all five Pro engines rather than five for each. After that, Pro is $199/year.
The answer
Value once the tradeoffs are priced:
- Downtown
- $155K winner
- Suburban
- $140K
- Remote
- $80K
- Margin
- $15K the answer
The suburban campus looks best on raw value at $240,000, but once its commute burden and client access are priced it lands at $140,000 and the downtown tower wins at $155,000. The $15,000 margin is the real output: if you think the commute penalty is off by more than that, the decision is not settled and you should go argue about that number specifically.
The model
Each option carries its annual value, then a dollar penalty for every dimension where it is not the best.
| Downtown tower | $180,000 value |
| Suburban campus | $240,000 value |
| Keep remote | $120,000 value |
| Penalties | commute, client access, room to grow |
| Adjusted values | computed |
Once it is in your sheet
- The model arrives with real numbers in it and runs as it stands, so you can press the button first and understand it second.
- Change the numbers to yours. The sheet marks which cells are inputs and which hold formulas, and most labels carry a note explaining the row.
- Press the run button at the bottom of the panel. It is labeled for the tool you are in, and the result lands on its own tab, with a written reading of it beside the figures.
Never used Google Sheets? Start here goes the whole way, in seven steps, and assumes nothing.
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