I would treat this as an example of people not knowing what they want. How many of those people who preferred an open floor plan have worked somewhere where th

I would treat this as an example of people not knowing what they want. How many of those people who preferred an open floor plan have worked somewhere where they had an office with a door? I'll hazard a guess, <5%? How can they tell? It's like asking someone from the Sahara desert how they think they'd do in the north pole. A private office doesn't mean don't talk with your team. You get people crowding an in office for discussion, you have meeting rooms, if you feel like hanging our with your team member(s) and they feel like hanging out with you then by all means hang out. If you need to disconnect from them to get something done, shut the door and focus. In any sort of normal place with offices people hang together all the time, but since nobody has offices any more, nobody knows that...