Regardless of your personal preference, it should be obvious that offices and productivity are not one-size-fits-all.
We seem to enjoy sharing personal anecdotes and preferences here regarding open plan, cubicles, home office, etc, and I find these discussions interesting. But I think the OP is a bit more interesting, because it summarizes some studies about both personal productivity and interactive teamwork.
Furthermore, they make the argument that it is a bad "management fad". In other words, since different folks/teams/projects work best in different arrangements, when an office accomodates all sorts, it should succeed, whereas management that forces any one arrangement will fail for some people. The fact that it is a fad is precisely the problem inasmuch as causes management to select open plan offices exclusively.
We seem to enjoy sharing personal anecdotes and preferences here regarding open plan, cubicles, home office, etc, and I find these discussions interesting. But I think the OP is a bit more interesting, because it summarizes some studies about both personal productivity and interactive teamwork.
Furthermore, they make the argument that it is a bad "management fad". In other words, since different folks/teams/projects work best in different arrangements, when an office accomodates all sorts, it should succeed, whereas management that forces any one arrangement will fail for some people. The fact that it is a fad is precisely the problem inasmuch as causes management to select open plan offices exclusively.