> Despite there not being a single shred of scientific evidence in favor of open office workspaces being a good idea and overwhelming evidence in favor of them

> Despite there not being a single shred of scientific evidence in favor of open office workspaces being a good idea and overwhelming evidence in favor of them being counterproductive for most software developers, this unfortunate fad is currently widespread. Software developers need private workspaces to ply their trade. Yep. Perhaps this could be softened a bit to say there are different sorts of devs, some seem to work OK in open plan offices and some need private work space. But personally I'm in the latter group. My company moved to open office space and I've come to not even think of the office as a place where I get real work done. Thankfully they allow me to work from home as well, that's one of the main things I'll be looking for in future employers. I have to admit I can produce a feeling of moderately intense anger by just thinking of the Yahoo executive banning work from home because she believed that everyone's job involved frequent impromptu hallway chats or whatever the fuck.