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Re:Why Open Offices? by vollmond on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @08:31AM (#9968144)
I haven't had that exact structure yet, but what I have had tracks well. I've had fully open-plan, single cubicles, and 4-6 person super-cubes. The super-cubes definitely seemed like the best option. I had easy collaborative access to my immediate teammates, with a bit of visual and audio barrier between us and other teams.

Open-plan was workable. Some sound pollution from other teams, but easy access to my team was good.

Individual cubes make no sense to me at all. All the sound pollution of open-plan, with none of the easy access to teammates. I hate it.

Re:Why Open Offices? by silverbax88 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @10:25AM (#9968810)
Wow, do I hate open plan. Have seen it implemented at several companies and all suffered trackable drops in productivity, even as they continued to tout how much better it was.

Numbers don't lie.

Re:Why Open Offices? by a3n on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @12:13PM (#9969605)
As long as you ship something, anything, people will buy it. So it's two curves and where they cross.