"Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" makes a very compelling argument on why open-plan workspaces give terrible results for knowledge workers.

If you work as a team leader, manager, or senior programmer, it's absolutely a must-read. I can't recommend it more highly than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/peopleware-revisited/

http://new.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html