Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
I have never been productive in open office spaces and then saw an HBS study showing empirical data on the things I felt all along:
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.0239" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.023...</a><p>I totally see the value of cultivating ideas in a private space without constant background noise, and then sharing these ideas with the right arguments for feedback when you see them as ripe.<p>Unfortunately, the narrative by big tech has popularized the notion that these open spaces with everyone speaking over each other has great productivity and collaboration benefits. It saves them a lot of cost to not build and maintain humane cubes, but other arguments of how great it is for "me" are just bogus.