It's one thing to put multiple people on the same task or question and have a focused, active collaboration. This would include things like brainstorming and pa

It's one thing to put multiple people on the same task or question and have a focused, active collaboration. This would include things like brainstorming and pair programming. It's another thing to give people their own tasks but put them in an environment of ambient chatter and real time notifications. This would include things like open floor plans and Slack. (I'm not arguing that these things are bad, just that they're not genuine collaboration.) It's pretty easy to make an office look and feel like a collaborative space. It's quite a bit harder to find a few tasks that would benefit from real collaboration and invest double or triple the "hourly rate" for that one thing. Then again, maybe it's totally worth the cost?