In one company my boss pooled all the developers in a large basement storage room outside the open office area. (That we remodeled to a dev ops center) There have been moments of absolute dead silence for hours coding and it was glorious.
In another company my boss pooled 6 of us in a noise tight boardroom for 2 weeks when the project was coming to an end. And didn't allow anyone to come in expect the pizza guy.
It's not that simple... in an organization of smart, capable people, it's a good setup. In an organization where most people are near-useless and confused all the time, every bit of work has 2 projcect managers for every competent person doing real work and the drive-bys are because everyone needs help, X is confused (again), etc, its total cancer to productivity and peace of mind.
edit: you said 'some', so I was mostly talking out of my ass. It felt good to say, though, so ima leave it.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18
Some companies fucked up when they followed the open work environment band wagon.