[mattmanser]

It's kinda tiresome, on HN there's is this rabid pro-open plan brigade, even though all the studies show otherwise.

It's the same as the "I can work 60 hours productivly" brigade. All the studies, for over a century (yes, century, not decades) have shown otherwise. They are studies that show that people delude themselves into thinking they are more productive than they are. And yet, no matter how many articles and papers you post, nope.

HN insists.

They are ingrained memes on HN that won't, despite all the evidence you ever post, go away.

So why bother? You can google it yourself, and then promptly ignore all the professional studies and still believe in open plan offices. It's simply not worth the effort.

[ramblerman]

It's a conspiracy, and you have proof of this. But are reluctant to show us as we wouldn't believe you anyway.

Interesting.

[mattmanser]

It's not a conspiracy, what tend to happen is you post a bunch of articles and then the parent starts picking at 1 point in 1 article as if that invalidates all of them and you get drawn into this long tiresome discussion with what is nothing but a crackpot using loads of anecdotes or worse, blog posts, against large scientific studies. And quite often it's nonsense any way, they just misunderstand it.

For some reason working conditions and working hours are incredibly emotive subjects, similar to women in tech, that tend to bring out the irrational side of otherwise lucid HN posters.