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The entire article offers as much evidence for their claims as I do: none.

Have you visited the offices at Google? Yahoo? Facebook? Tesla? Square? Twitter?

They are all bursting at the seams and are fighting on a daily basis with each other to find new space to expand, which is very hard to find here. Same for pretty much all the companies in the Bay Area, actually.

The mere idea of switching these companies from an open floor plan to individual offices will get you laughed at for proposing something completely nonsensical.

Open floor plans are here to stay.




I don't understand why you are lying? Your first sentence is an outright lie.

The article links studies, you do not.




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