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I have no idea why tech companies would pay engineers gobs of money, spend gobs of money on huge office campuses, then inflict open plan or cubicles on said engineers.

A firm is a hierarchy, and this is a form of social control.

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As a counterpoint, there are companies that have open floor plans or cubes for everyone all the way up to the C*Os.

Yeah, but the CEO always ends up commandeering the nicest conference room as his de facto office, or else he's always on the road.

Yes, there "are" companies where the CxOs are out on the floor like everybody else, but I've only seen it once and that was when we were ~5ppl doing an officeshare.

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