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Re:Why Open Offices? by deanCommie on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @12:31PM (#9969754)
Everything is a tradeoff. Cognitive load decreases productivity. Open communication and easy collaboration increases it. The argument is that it makes up for it. The current popular opinion on HN is it doesn't.

I'm sorry I don't have empathy for bullshit rare disorders like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia

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Re:Why Open Offices? by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:13PM (#9972257)
Rationally, it doesn't matter whether you have empathy or not. But you need to demonstrate rational understanding of the issues, and I don't think you've done that here.

There's a lot of evidence that open offices destroy productivity, and almost no evidence that they increase it.

So whatever your reasoning hiring people, paying them a lot of money, and then making it harder for them to do their jobs is an irrational position.

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