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When they moved my old group to open office plan, we lost our teaching lab, spent more money than we would've with walls and doors, then had to spend even more money for phone head sets for all of us, and it totally changed how we work.
I've also noticed that no one who says "do an open office plan" actually has one of their own to work out of... With the PM that did ours since she used to work for the company the college uses for office stuff I just figured it was a way for her to get kickbacks to/from her old coworkers and implement the stupid expensive silly bad designs she always wanted to sell.
During the pre-sell "you get to pick your own office chair under $500" stage I was wearing my disposable foam shooting ear plugs due to the white noise generators (they drive me insane, I cannot think coherently with wierd nonsensical slightly random nose patterns). When I saw the plans included several including one right over my desk, I flat out told her that if they were installed I'd be coming in on nights and weekends with a pair of wire cutters and a step ladder. When asked why I pointed to my ear plugs and explained. WNGs were not installed in our area.
And then 9 months later my new boss pissed me off and I changed departments, immediately got back to office with door (that is expected to be closed when I'm in it though I usually don't), and recently turned down the chance at a office on 2nd floor with big window over looking the grassy commons (I don't do windows in my office when I have a choice, on computer or in the wall). I'm in a half-below ground area with a real light switch (always off, I run a dim desk lamp in the corner and bathe in the glow of my monitors), 40 steps from the coffee maker and surrounded by the systems and networking folk (all the other dev types are upstairs, and while my title is technically "Linux Admin" I spend 38 out of 40 hours coding and doing coding related stuff like picking users brains for a decent spec to work against)
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