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I'm old enough to remember cubicles that had noise absorbing walls. Idk who thought open offices with hard reflecting surfaces was a good idea.
Managers who thought a panopticon was the best way to organize.
In a previous job, the manager had a low horizontal slit window in his office that allowed him to watch everybody in the open office from a seating position.
Best way to surveil
Foucault intensifies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
Density.
Architects.