Actually, cubicles are a good thing.

Agreed, there is nothing as distracting to me as an open floor plan. I take every opportunity to work at home that I can get, because my productivity is so much higher when I am out of the office.

depends who you work with. I've been working with really immature loud new grads at my current company and the open floor plan is awful. I just want to work and they yell across the room to talk.

I really only have one coworker like this. It's more that I get easily distracted myself, so if I have nowhere to hide from distractions I will be affected by them. I don't usually do well listening to music and working at the same time, so headphones don't help either

better than open floor plan sure. I'd still prefer something that doesn't have my back out facing the open. I think there are multiple studies that show that sitting with your back facing away from people causes significant anxiety.

I'm torn. Cubicles lead to higher productivity, but lower quality of work-life (in my opinion). I really like my coworkers.

Cubicles for 4 people, with high partitions.

Sounds perfect (for me).

Well, small glass offices instead of cubicles, with million dollar views of course.

This is true.