[tonygrue]

afaict, this study looked at only two instances of fortune 500 companies who moved some people to open office plans and compared them to those who were not moved.

Additionally, they measured 'interactions', which was a self defined metric that afaict has no grounding in anything.

I'm not sure if one of two Fortune 500 companies, used to working in an office, generalizes to me. So, I'm not sure how much I personally weight the outcome of this study.

I've worked in both offices and open office plans, and there were things I did and didn't like about both. Offices required more formal mind-melding but I had more concentration time during peak business hours. Pit allowed me to feel more camaraderie, but required me to work off hours to get concentrated work done. If it were up to be I'd do 3 days in an office and 2 days in a open pit.