&quot;On one hand you have hard data, open offices cost x, open plan costs x&#x2F;2, on the other hand you have &quot;engineers say they could be more productive with offices&quot; against &quot;do you remember when we were small and working in a single room, that was awesome, we were so agile and communicative&quot; (whether or not that is applicable at your particular company size or stage, burning the midnight oil on your stack to cobble together a demo for a pitch is not the same as writing production level tricky security code)&quot;<p>Not to mention that part of why you do that then is so you don&#x27;t have to do that anymore.