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I agree with whoever it was who said the advantages of cubicles is that you get to overhear potentially important conversations. I can blot out noise fairly well--when I was in college, I used to study in the student union building cafeteria. Where I am now, they don't give us sound cards in our computers, so there aren't any annoying distractions. When I truly concentrate, I tend to not hear people, even when they're standing next to my desk and talking to me. The nicest cubicle I ever had was on the 32nd floor of a building in downtown Seattle, next to a window overlooking Elliot Bay. The worst office I ever had, I shared with a contractor from Colorado who was rather insensitive ("My mother recently had back surgery. Wanna hear about it?" "No, I'd really rather not." "Well, they ripped her open from top to bottom.")
There are distinct advantages to being alone in a walled office, however. Aside from the privacy, the greatest plus is that you get to face whoever comes in--they don't creep up behind you and say "oh, playing FreeCell again, eh?" ;-) And with your own office, you don't even have to turn on the lights. I hate fluorescent lights.
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"Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing."
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