The free market would take care of it if everything else were the same. Like a Google with open floor plan competing against a Google without. I rather think th

The free market would take care of it if everything else were the same. Like a Google with open floor plan competing against a Google without. I rather think that these companies work despite the open floor plan, and would be even better without it. It's just that their advantage in other areas are big enough so they can afford to be sub optimal in this particular area. This of course implies that the effect can't be huge.