It's about more than noise. Cube walls, over the years kept getting shorter and shorter until finally doing away with them entirely. The point is - the busine

It's about more than noise. Cube walls, over the years kept getting shorter and shorter until finally doing away with them entirely. The point is - the business requires that you have zero privacy or any kind of time to yourself in any capacity outside of assigned breaks. The whole purpose is to create a panopticon of a work place, where even when you aren't being watched you modify your behavior on the possibility that you're being watched Open offices are inherently authoritarian in a corporate/cyberpunk sort of way. That's their primary function. All this crap about collaboration and fostering open communication is just the face of it.