Open concept offices - why ?
My hypothesis: Once upon a time, most bosses stayed in their own offices in their own world, with their doors usually closed and one needed to make an appointment to get an audience. Then one day, one enlightened one decided to have an open door policy so that staff could approach them more easily. The next enlightened one decided that to promote even more interaction, there should be no offices, everyone should just sit with everyone - in the name of better collaboration & communication. This seemed to make lots of sense for certain industries like the creative ones who need to discuss a lot , and for the traders. Then someone decided that there should be no partitions, let everything be open concept. The idea caught on. And before we knew it, everyone else just copied blindly, regardless of the nature of their work. Well, this is a good concept theoretically, until you have hardworking, high volumed colleagues who am not aware of their own volumes, until you need to focus...