The ideal setup that I've found is having two people per office that we have at my current workplace: - cuts out distractions: you can only get distracted if y

The ideal setup that I've found is having two people per office that we have at my current workplace: - cuts out distractions: you can only get distracted if you decide to talk with your office-mate. If either of us wants to chat with someone else, we move our discussion to a meeting room. - avoids the isolation and slacking off that a single person per office setup generates. - if office-mates are chosen intelligently, it can result in good collaboration for e.g. pairing a mentor with a junior programmer. A good idea would be to change the pairs every few months.