[pilgrim689]

I'm a big proponent of ~3 people offices as opposed to an open floor plan. There are many ways to "opt-in" to interactions:

- lunch/dinner is done in a dining area

- I invite people out for a coffee break

- I can go hangout in a common area

- I can just walk in to someone's office just like I would walk to someone's desk in an open floor plan

- I bump into people while walking down the hall, grabbing a snack from the kitchen, etc.

There's just so many ways I interact with people at the office, that making sure I'm surrounded by people I can't look away from or mute all the time is completely unnecessary.

And I don't want to have to blast music into my ears all day and wear horse blinkers just to get some continuous hours of distraction-free creative thinking done.