I work from home now. But as recently as a few years ago, I was at a decent-size company in town that moved to a brand new spiffy office building. When they did, they got rid of our cramped, sweaty, stinky "scrum rooms" (that the devs LOVED), and they replaced it with the dreaded "open floor plan". I told them, as soon as we moved to the new building, that you could easily walk around the whole (open) floor and tell, immediately, who was actually doing any real work - they're the ones with the headphones on. They kept crowing about the open floor plan as a harbinger of "collaboration". But anyone who hoped to accomplish their tasks wasn't collaborating with anyone - they were blocking out all the random noise with headphones.
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I work from home now. But as recently as a few years ago, I was at a decent-size company in town that moved to a brand new spiffy office building. When they did, they got rid of our cramped, sweaty, stinky "scrum rooms" (that the devs LOVED), and they replaced it with the dreaded "open floor plan". I told them, as soon as we moved to the new building, that you could easily walk around the whole (open) floor and tell, immediately, who was actually doing any real work - they're the ones with the headphones on. They kept crowing about the open floor plan as a harbinger of "collaboration". But anyone who hoped to accomplish their tasks wasn't collaborating with anyone - they were blocking out all the random noise with headphones.