You have to figure out what works for your team and go with it, not try to force people into a set-up they won’t thrive in.

I am one of those people who needs the discipline of going to work and who needs personal interaction and regular feedback from my co-workers, but who is sometimes easily distracted and needs to be able to close the door to be productive when it comes crunch time. I think ideas grow best in a group, but when people are working on their piece of the puzzle, they often need a distraction-free environment to work in.

Of course, the realities of space budgets are usually going to dictate you will have one or the other- space is hugely expensive, and the productivity advantages had to measure. The short-term advantage is you can build to fit the team you have now; the problem comes when the team and it’s needs change in ten years- then we get to build all over again. Of course, unless we don’t have the budget to do that and are stuck with a space that no longer fits.

Of course, Jesus never said it was going to be easy.