[spapas82]

I don't remember preaching for open offices - it is just the modern/hipster (and of course much cheaper, even cheaper than cubicles) way to easily "store" your employees.

The ideal was always to use private offices or small offices housing up to 4 persons closely working together.

IIRC there's a chapter on that on peopleware and the following article by joel describes the issues pretty good: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/07/30/private-offices-re...

TL;DR developers need private, quite offices to be productive in their primary work (write code).

[Eric_WVGG]

two Joel links in 5 minutes so you know he's on to something