Having recently started working in such an office, the reason has (IMHO) nothing to do with actual worker efficiency and everything to do with management's pers

Having recently started working in such an office, the reason has (IMHO) nothing to do with actual worker efficiency and everything to do with management's perspective. The cubicle walls are so short that I can see other's heads while sitting down (and if the person is tall and/or they prefer to raise their chair high, I can see their face) and conversations are often audible from 2 cubes away. Upper level management wants to reduce costs but also, to remind everyone that they are cogs in the machinery and that they want to basically turn every job they can, into essentially a regimented call-center sort of job, with quantitative stats being collected on all aspects of work performance. Only the very decent pay and the prospects for promotion out of this part of the company are keeping me around (it's the pay, really). Loyalty to the company itself: approximately zero.