half-height cubicles are THE BEST!
I worked in one office for a year- it had full-height cubicles- You felt like you were stuck in a box all day.
They redecorated to half-height cubicles- I didn’t realize how many people actually worked on the floor! And people talked and interacted 1000 times as much.
I would never work in an office like that again (with the full height)
More hysteria fuel from MSM.
I have the exact opposite opinion from yours. I like my reasonably spacious, full height, semi-private cubicle. I don’t want to be chatting with others in usually pretend friendships that end at the office door.
I hated the move to cubicles in the 90s, they were a disaster for companies. Some in recent years have realized the mistake and have begun switching back to offices. Maybe this will help that transition.
..and that's my problem with these stupid open floor plans.
People are always socializing, gossiping, talking, using speaker phones, etc. It's much more difficult to concentrate on my work.
My experience from an engineering career: they always put the engineers, who often want to be left alone to focus on building their models or running their numbers, into communal open spaces. They always put the marketing people, who thrive on interacting with others, in offices alone.
Flip that (put all the marketing people in a bullpen and let them BS together until they generate great ideas while letting the engineers live in semi-isolation where they can hunker down over their drawings) might have been a better paradigm.