Cubicles are better for all the reasons other people mentioned. They seem to have been replaced by cheaper long tables in offices that are genuinely paperless,

Cubicles are better for all the reasons other people mentioned. They seem to have been replaced by cheaper long tables in offices that are genuinely paperless, since all any employee needs is a computer, monitor and chair. In my experience, cubicles usually have a file cabinet and other paper storage, utensil drawer, desk phone, wall calendar and other stuff I seldom see in modern tech offices. And when it doesn't matter which computer is used by which employee, or everyone carries a laptop and phone with them, enter hotdesking.