Whenever I had serious programming work to do I got OUT of the office. When my last employer decided to go to shared cubes to reduce real estate costs, my cube

Whenever I had serious programming work to do I got OUT of the office. When my last employer decided to go to shared cubes to reduce real estate costs, my cube mate was a gregarious massively distracting personality. Shared cubes = one employee for the price of two. Later on I saw open tabletops with rows of employees - works for call centers - not for devs.