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When people think "private office" they think "corner office." But I've worked at places with private offices, and they aren't really that nice. Just cubicles where the walls go all the way to the ceiling basically, and maybe a bit more square feet. No natural light, etc. Maybe there are places with really nice private offices, but I think not many.

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My building has a lot of "private offices" but due to overcrowding, you end up doubling or tripling up in offices meant for one person. These are traditional offices with a window and solid wood door. Honestly, I'd rather just have my big cubicle from before the last time I got moved around. I don't need an actual private office, I just want some sort of semi-enclosed space where I can't hear my neighbor on the phone and just enough room for my desk, some boxes of hardware, and maybe a guest chair. If that means a cubicle with great soundproofing, so be it. A window would be great but I'm also content with just some natural sunlight somehow entering my space.

Doesn’t have to be nice. I just don’t want to be distracted with noise or people walking by and waving at someone else.

Having some visual privacy and ability to talk on the phone guilt free is nice too.

Is it quiet? That's what I care about.

Until my company fired everyone else in my department,there was just an endless stream of meetings going on in this one room.

I think the good trade-off is small-ish rooms with O(4) desks/people, ideally ones you work with. It is still sociable, reasonably private, but without the constant droning sound of the open floor.

Nitpicking here but O(4) is nonsense, that simply means “constant”, and would be written O(1).

only in CS order, not in physics approximations.

Following this comment, I looked up the definition on the nearest Wikipedia server, and it seems that you are simply wrong.

U sure?I work with physicists

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