Unfortunately, humans are generally short-sighted.  Penny-wise, pound-foolish.<p>Also, I imagine a lot of these managers would disagree with you about the output; they&#x27;ll claim that collaboration boosts output, improves quality, etc.  Of course, it&#x27;s all just hand-waving with no evidence.  To get any real evidence, you&#x27;d have to do some kind of study doing identical or similar projects in both environments.  And even then, different people are different: some people might actually be more productive in an open environment.  It probably really depends a lot on the personality type of the programmer, and on how they prefer to work.  A lot of today&#x27;s hipster programmers really do like open offices.