I only don't like it when the managers get their own offices. If they want a private conversation. They should have to grab one of the meeting rooms just like us plebs. The bank I am contracted to at the moment operates open an for all the areas I've worked in, and in most of their big corporate sites now have full wireless, standing desks you can move to, small meetingrooms, large kitchen and cafe space as well as cube farms. No one gets a perminant private office, and over all I like working there. The company that employs me however has got cramped open plan for the plebs, private offices for middle management and above, only one meeting room per floor and the tiny kitchen bay is right by the copier and printer so is never quiet. Luckily, I almost never have to work there.