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Open-plan offices - fantastic idea ... if you're cold-calling, selling double glazing or carrying out some other mechanical exercise requiring little thought. Formulating and then providing legal advice of any complexity in that sort of noisy, disruptive and unsettling environment? - forget it, unless you have a hearing deficit or the concentration of a Zen Master, which is about 2 in 10 lawyers max (don't kid yourselves). The other 8 just produce slipshod work, and get stressed out in the process. Take that to the next level by 'hot-desking', and good luck with the PI insurance premiums, and dissatisfied clients exposed to quickly-delivered mediocrity. 50-odd comments on this thread, virtually all opposed. Advocates are bean-counters or jargon-addicted management types looking at office rents and other infrastructure costs rather than taking care of their staff properly by providing reasonable working conditions. No wonder the legal profession has become increasingly dissatisfied over the years. I'd rather work in a miniscule windowless office than 'hot-desk', if for no other reason than one could probably leave every day by 5, having done every bit as much as would be achievable by 7 in a quiet and efficient office.