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> I want my own keyboard, which I have selected for its ergonomic properties.

^This. I enjoy using a nice electromechanical keyboard, but the noise from typing (even on a model with quieter/damped key switches) is incompatible with a shared/open plan office space.

But the greatest reasons are privacy, a sense of spatial ownership, and freedom from distraction and interruptions.

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I can zone other people and their keyboards out just fine but yes.

Though my colleagues have noted previously that they find the level of volume coming from my keyboard to be less a distraction and more a useful indicator of how interruptable I am that I don't need to deliberately update.

This may be off-topic but over the years of working in a shared office with 3 others, I learned to distinguish whether they were coding, writing on their thesis, or just browsing.

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