I got mentioned! Yay! The real digg office is the irc channel. With remote people and weird hours, that's where most of the work (and water cooler talk) happens.
Owen - here's digg as well, I was there this summer but I don't think you were in at the time. http://tinyurl.com/36erzf
Almost without exception, all the workspaces are open-office, some more than others. I've been working this way for a decade and prefer it to a private office.
If you had your choice, would you want your own private office or would you prefer working in a larger space with several coworkers?
well i prefer working with several co workers.cause u need to learn many things and yes u can joke with anybody ;)
Large space with several co-workers. That's ideal for me. If I'm ever 'in the zone', I just put on headphones even if music isn't playing.
I'm inclined to say "private office", but I've never had one, so it might not be all that great. I guess it depends how open is open. At my job, there are 6 people in a "team room" that is partially open to the hallway. Communication within the team is improved, but it seems that anyone coming to interrupt anyone else also interrupts me. For a lot of stuff it doesn't really matter. For some things it is really hard to make any headway unless I know I'm not going to be interrupted for several hours.
I think the best design would strongly encourage people to use shared workspaces but have private offices for everyone that wanted one.
The Mozilla pictures stand out from the others as more corporate.