Using a study of programmers in the 1970s (where not punching the wrong hole in punch cards was a critical skill) for programmers in 2017 may not give you the most useful data.
Of course writing out programs by hand is also a long obsolete and useless skill — except for interviews at all the top companies, where it's vital.
For example:
>...In 2011, the organizational psychologist Matthew Davis reviewed more than a hundred studies about office environments. He found that, though open offices often fostered a symbolic sense of organizational mission, making employees feel like part of a more laid-back, innovative enterprise, they were damaging to the workers’ attention spans, productivity, creative thinking, and satisfaction.
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-t...
- Some kind of informed consent (because quitting)
- Separation of space (to prevent jealousy)
- A good way to measure programmer skill (this one's harder)
- A lack of unquestioned dogma that open plan is better
It's not as easy as you make it out to be, but either big G or Fbook could probably do it, given the will (which i suspect is the actual problem).
EDIT: parentheses are hard to match