This is more or less how my office was in ~2014-16. I believe some property developer turned a bunch of apartments near the Caltrain station (1 Bluxome St.) in

This is more or less how my office was in ~2014-16. I believe some property developer turned a bunch of apartments near the Caltrain station (1 Bluxome St.) into offices, so the building was a mix of residential and startups (e.g. Goldbelly was based there for a while, and I think some VC fund of Michael Arrington's, and plenty of others I've forgotten). My office was in a loft, where our company was in the loft area and a different company had the downstairs living area, and we both used the bedroom (with a door) as a meeting room. IMO it wasn't really any worse than any other open office plan and had some benefits, like a full kitchen.