There is a rational excuse for every bad decision in history. When the arguments for certain practices that are highly consequential become obvious, simple, pr

There is a rational excuse for every bad decision in history. When the arguments for certain practices that are highly consequential become obvious, simple, predictable, perhaps even tautological, I usually take it as a sign that the whole thing is likely unfounded. You'd think some company would measure how productive their engineers are in "open office" or strictly on-prem working environments and resolve the matter firmly rather than blindly following the prevailing wives tales, but as far as I'm aware just about every aspect of "management" is not up for consideration. (Just don't let them catch on to the fact that finding someone's name in Slack is actually pretty easy and that getting things down in writing is always a better idea than relying on people's verbal memory for critical transfer of information, and that the less an engineer is distracted and the more comfortable he is the better he will perform)