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by betadreamer 2905 days ago
I’m not sure if it makes us less social but I noticed that open plan creates one of the two environments:

1) Super distracting. Everyone is talking the whole time and it’s hard to focus. Your team member bugs you all the time and you realize that your team is part of the noise.

2) Slack driven communication. No one bothers anyone and all the conversation is done on Slack. You slack a person even if they are sitting next to you. Pretty awkward and can be time consuming.