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My gripe with open plan offices is that I spend a lot of the day overhearing a bunch of shit I have zero interest in.

I used to work at a consulting company, and I'd be in an open plan office with 5 other teams, working on 5 other projects. Everyone was working through engineering decisions that were unrelated to my own.

If everyone's on the same team, at least, there is some saving grace to the open plan office - you overhear stuff that you might be able to contribute to.



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