">It fostered a sense of being able to talk without worrying that it might be misinterpreted as romantic intimacy." I'd never considered this in detail before,

">It fostered a sense of being able to talk without worrying that it might be misinterpreted as romantic intimacy." I'd never considered this in detail before, but I'm nearly certain that this is why I prefer those stylish glass-walled conference rooms wherever possible. Though, I'm not particularly concerned about romance, rather the kind of paranoid / narcissistic managers who can't bear not to impose themselves on any (opaque) closed-door meeting.