[marginalia_nu]

If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines them in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.

[dehrmann]

I've worked places that actively acknowledged they were paying a productivity tax for people to have unexpected encounters, and they'd recover the losses at a higher level.

[wiseowise]

This. And there would be huge investments in productivity and reducing bureaucracy.