If your company does this, do you mind answering a few questions in the comments?
- How big is your company?
- What's the best part about having individual offices?
- How about the worst?
- Would you work at a company that didn't have offices?
My first programming job back in 1974 had fully enclosed private offices with opaque doors and reasonable soundproofing.
In later years, in non-supervisory roles, I was occasionally put in shared offices, or worse - cubicles.
Productivity is highest without distractions and without interruptions. Communication is the responsibility of management - not the side effect of cheap open space.
I find it incredibly ironic how many software companies apparently don't believe in the power or usefulness of Information Technology.
in what regard? communication?
That it does, but often at the price of productivity. There is a line dividing productive communication and pointless distraction and the more people you put in one room the more often you cross it.