I’ve worked in cubicles with high walls, cubicles with low walls, a “pit” (high cubicle walls surrounding a whole team of devs), open offices, and remote. Cubi

I’ve worked in cubicles with high walls, cubicles with low walls, a “pit” (high cubicle walls surrounding a whole team of devs), open offices, and remote. Cubicles with high walls was my favorite configuration. I have a really hard time focusing when people are constantly moving through my field of view, and it makes me uncomfortable when I am constantly in someone else’s field of view. High cubicle walls solve that. They also provide a little sound absorption. But you still get the benefit of being in an office and meeting with people face to face. Open office was the worst for me, by far. It was so noisy, with so many distractions. I would never work in an open office again. The “pit” and the low-wall cubicle were similar, though not quite as bad. I have worked remote for many years, and it’s the best for work-life balance (emphasis on the life part), but have found that collaboration and team morale suffer pretty significantly. Edit: one other note about cubicles is that if the ceiling is high and the windows are large, you can still get a large amount of natural light even if you aren’t next to a window. The cubicle setup felt way less claustrophobic to me than the open office.