One thing I&#x27;ve noticed, there&#x27;s the &quot;coolness factor&quot;. Open offices are just more photogenic than closed offices, almost no matter how you do them. That&#x27;s a big factor in startups and gamedev where coolness factor is actually important.<p>Edit: to be clear by &quot;important&quot; I don&#x27;t mean that it&#x27;s a good thing, I mean that it has an unfortunately big impact on PR, hiring, and it&#x27;s something that the people in charge take seriously. Personally I prefer individual offices, regardless of the coolness factor.