People used it very sparingly. It's not at all different from working in an open plan office. If anything it's better, as you can drop off from the call if you

People used it very sparingly. It's not at all different from working in an open plan office. If anything it's better, as you can drop off from the call if you don't want to be disturbed. No such luxury in the office. And of course this only works with Google's usual "family sized" teams of 5-7 people.