I don't remember preaching for open offices - it is just the modern/hipster (and of course much cheaper, even cheaper than cubicles) way to easily "store" your

I don't remember preaching for open offices - it is just the modern/hipster (and of course much cheaper, even cheaper than cubicles) way to easily "store" your employees. The ideal was always to use private offices or small offices housing up to 4 persons closely working together. IIRC there's a chapter on that on peopleware and the following article by joel describes the issues pretty good: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/07/30/private-offices-redux/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/07/30/private-offices-re... TL;DR developers need private, quite offices to be productive in their primary work (write code).