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Maybe it's a UK thing but i agree with you.

Yeah, I'm with you lot. The current Sigmatel Cambridge office is all open-plan, with tiny "partition-ettes" a foot or so high along the sides of the desks. It works really well, much better than the old semi-cubed Empeg Towers (or than Iota, where we all had our own offices). But I suspect it would work less well if we were more tightly spaced, there's plenty of sound-deadening ceiling and floor between each developer.

I also like the way that we don't have a culture of phoning people: we email if it's not urgent, and walk over to talk to someone if it is. Phones, being impersonal and disruptive, are the worst of both worlds.

Peter