How to set up your office for technology workers

To be sure, Web 2.0 has birthed new types of innovation employees who depend on -- even thrive by - working in groups. Web designers and developers, project managers, system architects, even some software developers are embracing office layouts that encourage interaction. Practitioners of the Agile Software Development movement have even come up with templates for office furniture arrangements that are physical embodiments of the Agile principles of openness and collaboration.

The other hand

On the other hand, asking programmers or network administrators to do their jobs in an open space where noise, distractions and interruptions abound can be akin, for some of them until further notice, to departmental decimation.