Great spot on analysis of the open office! I share many of your observations – I guess people want to be seen as the hippy cool office where everyone is talking and laughing in sync. I’ll have to check out your book recommendations Deep Work and Peopleware!

Incidentally I wrote an article on this that also shared many of your points raised here: https://medium.com/@joshuapoh/i-have-a-love-hate-relationship-with-open-offices-f652b31671f6?source=linkShare-f34f9a97a556-1532045975

Thanks for writing this!