> I suspect many people on HN have never had a proper office with a door. In my time at Apple I had a real office with a real door for about half of my time. O

> I suspect many people on HN have never had a proper office with a door. In my time at Apple I had a real office with a real door for about half of my time. Of that only about half was an office I didn't have to share with someone else. The lone offices were the most productive I ever was while working there. I could close the door and go unbothered for hours. I turned off the lights and had my own lamp that was much more comfortable. Sharing an office with coworkers wasn't bad on its face but it's difficult to focus if the other person is talking with someone else. It's all manageable but objectively worse than a single office. The open floor plan at Apple Park was just fucking horrible. Constant distractions all day. Sure you could collaborate but when trying to actually get work done it was in spite of a hundred visual and audible distractions. I'm sure I distracted others inadvertently as well. A giant spaceship of a campus and they couldn't manage to give everyone a private space. Just the stupidest design for a building.