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by PurpleRamen 2889 days ago
The only way for open offices to work is when nobody is doing open work. The major fail of open offices are the constant distractions existing around you. If they don't exist, then of course can it work.

Anyway, what you discribe still has a price for your team. You not only break the persons concentration who is asked, instead of giving them the choice to answer when they have free time to concentrate on something new, you also break rise the chance of breaking the concentration of everyone else who is not involved.