My personal belief, after having had a 100% remote job, is that there is a lot of value in having people physically co-located at the same physical office.<p>This isn&#x27;t always true and I would never want to enforce it dogmatically. For some people &#x2F; teams &#x2F; companies, significant remote working is very successful. I just don&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s <i>always</i> or even <i>frequently</i> better than a physical office <i>with adequately private and quiet working conditions.</i><p>I do believe fully remote working is probably better than the shambolic open-plan disasters that are common these days, so if someone makes you believe in a false dilemma pitting fully open-plan versus fully-remote, then fully-remote is probably the lesser of two evils.<p>I did read the parent article. I responded as I did because I am dumbfounded that the idea of paying for the cost-effective extra benefits of private offices is not really even <i>considered</i> -- we&#x27;ve come so far on the path to destructive workspaces that we don&#x27;t even <i>think</i> about it any more.