With all due respect, I’m not sure why you’re taking umbrage with my statement. I am not being bigoted; by and large, successful salespeople are extroverted. Th

With all due respect, I’m not sure why you’re taking umbrage with my statement. I am not being bigoted; by and large, successful salespeople are extroverted. That is not an opinion. This is true because extroversion generally leads to more time spent with people, rather than less (which is not to say introverts never spend time with people), and thus extroverts tend to be more successful in field sales. Similarly, it is not bigoted to state that conventionally attractive people are more successful in field sales; you may not like it, but that isn’t an opinion - people buy more from people they see as attractive. Intelligence and subject matter expertise plays a (often much larger) factor as well, depending on the industry of course. The point is that there are absolutely legitimate reasons to discriminate hiring on certain factors. You also would be unlikely to hire someone afraid of heights as a helicopter pilot; that doesn’t make them any less of a person, just less suited for the job than someone who isn’t afraid of heights. Please explain what you mean by them not being cheaper long-term. In terms of pure expense, and now that nearly every company has built open office plans as their main plan, they are actually cheaper in the long term too. That CEO sounds like an idiot. That doesn’t mean every CEO is an idiot. Nor does it mean open plan offices never make sense. It also doesn’t mean they aren’t cheaper. Open plan offices have very little to do with status signaling or trend following, though I will grant you that this does occur. And it certainly has nothing to do with surveillance culture; if it did, there are much better ways to do that, like periodic chat log reviews (a real thing at some companies). Open plan offices are about saving money, and about not having to plan. It’s that simple.