I don't want to be on my own all day. The best set-up I've ever had was when I had an office with just my team (and only the other engineers) so just the peopl

I don't want to be on my own all day. The best set-up I've ever had was when I had an office with just my team (and only the other engineers) so just the people who I was actually working with. This meant discussions could actually be useful as we were working on very similar stuff, if not the same - and as they were other engineers we were all capable of offering solutions and not just being a distraction. In my current open office the vast majority of the people have no idea what I even do and have such entirely different skillsets it's not like we can have productive work discussions. Therefore, it's just noise and distraction.