> I think this is a lot of it. The office has always been a rather unpleasant place to work for a whole lot of people, and things like the open office fad make

> I think this is a lot of it. The office has always been a rather unpleasant place to work for a whole lot of people, and things like the open office fad make it borderline intolerable. Are these aspects less common outside of America there? Over here in the UK, just about every tech related role I've had in the last decade has involved an open office environment, and none of these have been particularly pleasant to work in. Yet somehow the numbers of folks returning are supposedly higher here than in the US? Doesn't seem to make much sense, unless somehow other parts of Europe haven't gone that direction with their office designs or something.