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Re:Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study by ericwood on Thursday February 06, 2020 @12:33PM (#22258131)
I mean, clearly it's not working for a large chunk of people, otherwise this article wouldn't keep appearing on the front page of HN regularly.

What I'm saying is there's a way to meet in the middle.

Re:Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study by Mountain_Skies on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:55PM (#22260185)
Is there? About the only thing I've seen suggested that might work is to offer everyone a choice but as another poster commented, the vast majority would choose an office over an open floorplan.

Group rooms, shared offices, etc., would be an acceptable compromise for some but far from all. These middle solutions still have the negatives of the open floorplan just on a smaller scale. If you prefer cola and I prefer water, watered down cola isn't going to make either of us very happy.