> open floor plan designs are conducive to collaboration between teams This is just an overused cover-up story to avoid stating the real reasons which is cutti

> open floor plan designs are conducive to collaboration between teams This is just an overused cover-up story to avoid stating the real reasons which is cutting costs and monitoring employees. They use "collaboration" so that you can't voice your opposition to it easily. If you do that they will beat you with the "not a team player" and "not a culture fit" sticks. Then in reality unhappy employees sit next to each other with noise cancelling headphones whose job has been unnecessarily harder than it already is because now a part of their mental focus and capacity is actively going towards ignoring distractions.