Yes, it is link journalism. I wish I could find another article on this that was on HN about a year ago. The takeaway was that closed and open offices each have

Yes, it is link journalism. I wish I could find another article on this that was on HN about a year ago. The takeaway was that closed and open offices each have their benefits and liabilities, and that the ideal is to have open areas with something like the study carrels in libraries that people can retreat to. I've never seen that in practice, but I'd love to try it out.