Cubicles? Try open plan - that really sucks! (Score 2, Insightful)

I can sympathise with the problems of cubicles. However, for real inefficiency, try open plan! My current client, a well known retail bank, has everyone (except senior management who are on £150k+/year) in open-plan work areas as far as the eye can see...yes, open plan, no cubicles, no dividers just open plan...when I suggested that we might want to set up some 'quiet zones' where people could go to concentrate on actually doing some work I was told to buy an iPod!