A lot of engineers discount the impact of visibility and focus too much on the sound distractions. I think visibility is just important. It's all part of a viol

A lot of engineers discount the impact of visibility and focus too much on the sound distractions. I think visibility is just important. It's all part of a violent transparency theme I think is captured pretty well here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150321053931/https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/open-plan-offices-panic-attacks-all-in-the-game/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150321053931/https://michaeloc... Even if you don't suffer from more-than-normal anxiety over it to the point of panic attacks, all the studies on normal people show open plans aren't great.