[throwaywgsid]

The most obvious and effective sounding way to divide offices is per-team. That way groups of people working on the same thing can talk easily.

My current company has every dev and most managers in the same room. 7 scrum teams, over 60 people in one room. It's madness and I can't fucking stand the noise.

You get written up for talking "excessively" during work hours because 3/4 the company can hear you when you try to collaborate. Peer programming is impossible.

I have no idea why idiotic management consultants are promoting whats basically a sweatshop environment.

The stupidest part of this is that my company just cut the walls down to a few feet. You can clearly see that the dividers between each team used to be full height walls. What a tragedy

[greedo]

I work in a team of 12. The idea of having all of us in one room would result in several homicides. Even with cubicle walls, in the past, homicide has been a course of action contemplated by most of the team.

This idea the groups need to be able to talk easily is just idiotic. We're not in kindergarten sharing what our cats did or why the sky is blue, we're professionals working on complex tasks. Written communication is abundant, whether it's chat/slack/irc/email/remedyforce etc. If anything, we're drowning in communication. Comprehension is the issue.

So screw working side by side in pair programming, or such crap. It's all a part of companies that view employees as a cost center, or a "resource" to be managed, like you would a herd of cattle.

[iamacynic]

uh well, you still work there don't you? that's why. because it's cheaper and you still need the paycheck.

[Arizhel]

Username checks out.

[Balgair]

Literally, the entire thread in a nutshell. Bravo.