Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They're associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.
...top performers overwhelmingly worked for companies that gave their workers the most privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom from interruption.
Work alone. You're going to be best able to design revolutionary products and features if you're working on your own. Not on a committee. Not on a team.
~ Steve Wozniak (Quoted by Susan Cain, Author of Quiet)