Because Hollywood and overzealous architectural design firms dont understand acoustics...many of them have only recently come to realize the hubris of their ide

Because Hollywood and overzealous architectural design firms dont understand acoustics...many of them have only recently come to realize the hubris of their ideas. I once worked for a $web_company in a cubeless open office with hard flooring and lots of glass. It was so bad you could hear a fart in the bathroom from the kitchen. Developers routinely recommended brands of noise cancelling headphones. In the sysadmin pool we were virtually un-addressable unless you talked to us on IRC. The office was just too damned loud. and thats not all, things dropped on the floor never survived. they didnt just break, they went off like a bomb. I remember a tech-support coworker dropped her novelty coffee mug and someone thought it was gunfire. We hired a sound control company to fix most of the problems when an executive was overheard in his office addressing our devops lead by a homophobic slur.