I'd like to add something about how the quality of your employees affects the outcome of the open office arrangement. If you work with a bunch of thoughtful pe

I'd like to add something about how the quality of your employees affects the outcome of the open office arrangement. If you work with a bunch of thoughtful people, of course they are going to respect flow. And they're going to realize when their personal habits affect the people around them. Even gregarious extroverts will be quiet in a library like atmosphere, and move their conversations to a kitchen or break out room The open office allows people to split into sub teams and to work together on projects more fluidly than an arrangement where people have strong physical barriers to moving. But it's a sort of environment that comes together as the sum of its parts. Forcing an open environment into a shitty company with shitty employees will likely make it worse.