The "nearby hotelling areas" thing is okay when you do everything on a laptop, but as developers we tend to have all our state on a desktop machine driving 2 or

The "nearby hotelling areas" thing is okay when you do everything on a laptop, but as developers we tend to have all our state on a desktop machine driving 2 or 3 large monitors. We can't just pick it up and go into a "focus room", as they're called where I work. My own opinion is that it should be the other way around. In the open space, library rules apply: brief whispered conversations only. For extended discussions, go into a "focus room". That, I think, could work.