In most of our UK offices we have between 200 and a thousand people per floor, and the current pointy-haired wisdom is that open plan is the way.

Gakkkkk

Luckily, we put together a business case saying this was not suitable for information security staff, so we have our own spaces - still open, but limited to 20 or so folks, maximum.

Which works nicely:-)
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