Your open office experiences and mine are massively different. I guess that's why two reasonable people can have different opinions on the subject. I would

Your open office experiences and mine are massively different. I guess that's why two reasonable people can have different opinions on the subject. I would go nuts if people were gossiping and being as chaotic as a daycare... Luckily I've never run into that. Actually the worst gossip-y company I ever worked at was a closed office/tall cubicle company.