Many cubicle hounds wish they could work in a more open office environment. You can't get much more open than the office environment at Nude House, an alleged Web software developer in Buckinghamshire, England. If stories currently circulating the Web are to be believed, the company is looking for female coders and salespeople of any gender who are willing to work in a completely naked office setting. That's right, not even shoes are allowed.

Now, we're almost willing to bet our skivvies this will turn out to be some sort of viral Internet spoof. If it doesn't, just think of the weight basic office decisions would take on. Aeron chair No way' that mesh material will leave marks. Hot coffee in the break room Maybe something room temperature would be safer. Best to keep that stapler at a distance, too.

A more detailed version of this picture appears on Nude House&39's employment opportunities page. Meet your new co-worker. Her eyes are up here.

With a name like Nude House, you might be expecting something titillating like an adult Web content or online strip poker. The company's main product--again, if Nude House doesn't exist just to test the gullibility of the Web-going public--is actually a somewhat old-fashioned technology called "Move Your Mouse" that enables text and additional images to pop up when a mouse is waved over an online picture.

Nude House founder Chris Taylor says he has been a naturist for about three years. As the name implies, naturists prefer to be naked outside. You can imagine that might be difficult in England's rainy climate, especially when lots of sensitive computer and electrical equipment is required to do the job.

According to Nude House, the office will feature warm temperatures, showers, and a collection hamper for soiled sitting material. I'll bet Microsoft never has to deal with soiled sitting material.

With April Fools' Day so recently upon us, I had to check in directly with Nude House over e-mail. "Yes," he insisted, "it is for real." The Nude House Web site looks like it was designed in 1996 by a middle-schooler with a basic HTML manual, so you can see where my skepticism comes from. The photo of a massive CRT monitor and naked salesgirls doesn't exactly project professionalism either.

Taylor says he has had some applicants for the coding jobs, but it won't help that his Craigslist job ad was flagged as inappropriate and removed from the site. He has since reposted it with the headline "Nude Female Web Coders wanted."

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The population of skilled Web coder naturists may be small, but the offer of a roughly $40,000 yearly salary could be enough to get a potential employee to consider stripping down. "There are no external benefits to having a nude workforce, just pleasure for all concerned," Taylor said. Purely professional pleasure, I would expect.

Taylor told us five staff members are already working at Nude House. He isn't concerned about any issues cropping up in a mixed gender office full of coding geeks in their birthday suits. "There are strict rules to stop any messing about, so I think those, plus their own professionalism, will ease over most problems there could be," he said.

Plus, Taylor promises that working at Nude House will be "great fun"--unless of course, the newly hired employees are just part of some giant nude pyramid scheme.