Who cares what articles say, if a company can still recruit employees? When good candidates start turning down positions because of the office layout, that mig

Who cares what articles say, if a company can still recruit employees? When good candidates start turning down positions because of the office layout, that might create some pressure to change, though. But I think one of the problems is that bad office layouts tend to exacerbate problems. They may be the ultimate underlying cause of retention problems, but they're typically not the proximate cause, and thus don't get the blame they're due. Someone might leave because of interpersonal conflicts or just "not fitting in" to their team, which might not seem like an office-layout issue. But who knows if they might have gelled better with their team if they weren't all sitting around with noise-cancelling headphones on, or glaring at each other for turning the lights on/off, or taking too many phone calls, or all the other annoyances of an open office.