"You might be less productive individually but it might encourage team work and make the team as a whole more effective." Team room is not an open office. Open

"You might be less productive individually but it might encourage team work and make the team as a whole more effective." Team room is not an open office. Open office is a place where a number of teams congregate. And open offices generally seem to hurt even team work, so the only thing speaking for an open office is that it's cheaper. Any other 'advantages' are just marketing by consultants whose business is to develop open offices and site managers (or the corresponding financially responsible party) who want to save on their budget. If you are employing fairly expensive software engineers I'm not sure you should implement savings on a less expensive resource that will just devalue the output from your expensive resource. http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170105-open-offices-are-damaging-our-memories http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170105-open-offices-are-d...