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This is extremely common and is a feature.

Without it, suddenly you can hear every conversation happening all the way on the other side of your open plan office. It becomes extremely distracting.



It's a cost saving measure warranted by open spaces. We used to have walls and closed offices instead.


Open plan vs private office is a totally different conversation.

Adding the white noise isn't cost-saving, it costs money to install.




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