NY Times Report - A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work

[Black Aeronaut]

For the ones where working side by side is a necessary evil, then maybe they should scale up the cubes and make the "open air office" into a place that's actually pleasant and enjoyable.  After all, there will still be people doing the grunt work from home, and as mentioned that means a lot more floor space is now available.

Worse comes to worse, they can always convert offices into condos or something like that and maybe make even more money that way.