I'm upvoting this for the title and closing paragraph: “Facebook is paying 40-50% more than other places,” Spolsky said at the GeekWire conference. “Which is usually a sign developers don’t want to work there.”

I abhor open floor plans. As a grad student, I have to share a room with several people (all of whom I respect), but we all unintentionally distract one another in some form every day, and it slows us all down!

We programmers all know the cost of context switching: any question asked, any joke, any comment, any interruption made during a programming session is killing productivity.

I am as fast alone at my side project as at my (open space) office, despite the fact that I only spend 4 times less time.

everyone hates open floor plans, aside from that guy that wants their team to move to an open floor plan. the end.

I was on a sales rep recently who had to sit at her desk in an open floor plan, I couldn't hear a damn thing.

Upvote just for the title

Can we thin these discussions out to at least once a week?

If doing a bunch at once causes even a couple PHBs to reconsider their love of open office plans, it's worth it.