A nice article attacking the current fad within office fascism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplace/?tid=sm_fb

I hate these little tricks of authoritarianism.  Like most things supposedly thought up by today's tech toddlers, this one precedes them.  Check out around 3:10 in the film trailer for The Trial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_7weUR0oMY