Ending the open office epidemic
I guess I'm in a real minority here, but I'm pretty happy with open-office.Some qualifiers:- The team has a good culture of respecting each other, and we're busy enough not to want to banter too much outside of certain times (e.g., lunch, when we see it already going on, etc.).- I've got good headphones hooked to a 24-bit-DAC'd USB amp.  I don't hear anyone unless I'm trying to.- My screen's big enough where visual noise isn't an issue.On the upside:- Asking someone a quick question is really, really quick.Downsides of my prior each-their-own-office experiences:- I sometimes felt a bit lonely.- I certainly felt disconnected from the rest of my team.- I was disconnected from the rest of my team - there were always important conversations I would've liked to been part of.[edited for getting the bullets formatted]