A long time ago I had an office with a door that I was encouraged to shut so I could concentrate. I was an individual contributor who needed to get shit done.

A long time ago I had an office with a door that I was encouraged to shut so I could concentrate. I was an individual contributor who needed to get shit done. Over the years I worked in cube farms where the CIO would come at 3pm like clockwork to see if people were actually working or slacking off. Probably because despite being agiley, shit was broken. Then I worked in an “open plan” office where I had to elbow my coworkers so I had enough space to type on the keyboard. Shit was still broken but damn there were now three times as many developers as before. It was and is the result of incompetent management and the corporate culture that rewards them. The incentives is not about getting shit done but to build their ego and feudal empire.