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Point taken.

The open office layout is a scam - pushed based on the build-out costs of new office space in a very rapidly expanding market in Silicon valley over the last two decades.

Companies needed lots of office space very fast. Companies also dies fast.

Building out office space is expensive and the push for open office layouts as a "culture" bit was just as much marketing as anything else...



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