I'm not sure i can convince you, but I can say that going to school in the 70's and 80s was a completely different experience. We did a minimum amount of group work. Homework was not done collaboratively.
So to my generation, this bouncing ideas thing is less of a requirement because we're used to doing our own work.
If you look at scientific papers from fifty years ago, most had just a few authors, now many of them list eight or ten.
The team approach seems to be taking over the world. However, I would point out that most truly great work, think Nobel prize, or truly awesome engineering work (K&R, UNIX) has till now mostly been achieved by individuals or by small teams, and that there was a lot of focused individual effort put into them.
I don't mean to sound condescending at all, because the young are going to win out by default, you guys are the future and we are the dinosaurs. You preferences and work habits will become the correct ones (whether they are better or not).
However, I would suggest that you like open plan environments because this preference has been trained into you since early grade school.
So to my generation, this bouncing ideas thing is less of a requirement because we're used to doing our own work.
If you look at scientific papers from fifty years ago, most had just a few authors, now many of them list eight or ten.
The team approach seems to be taking over the world. However, I would point out that most truly great work, think Nobel prize, or truly awesome engineering work (K&R, UNIX) has till now mostly been achieved by individuals or by small teams, and that there was a lot of focused individual effort put into them.
I don't mean to sound condescending at all, because the young are going to win out by default, you guys are the future and we are the dinosaurs. You preferences and work habits will become the correct ones (whether they are better or not).
However, I would suggest that you like open plan environments because this preference has been trained into you since early grade school.