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>Apple workers were in actual offices with locks due in part to Apple's obsession with secrecy ( 1 or 2 to an office )

I don't have the cites handy but my recollection is that the specific iPhone teams (hardware and software) were working long hours in the open around conference tables. That subgroup was isolated from the rest of Apple employees because of the secrecy so yes in that sense, they weren't "open" on the gigantic scale of Facebook.

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I worked at Apple from 2014 to 2016 and the iPhone, iPad, etc. teams I was working with were in offices, one or two to an office, up until a big move to an open office in early 2016. They appeared to have been in offices for years.

Apple is sufficiently secretive that indeed some other teams might have been in open offices. Not the ones that I saw or interacted with. I was working on a key part of the iPhone and iPad technology.

Working in an open space with people you are actually working with is different from being crammed into one space with people you have nothing to do with.

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