So your beliefs/guesses/hypotheses state here are that: 1. Open plan offices are damaging to all, except those: a. Who mistakenly believe in the collaborative nature of open plan environments. By believing they enjoy working in them. b. Are extroverted. They gain no benefit, but are not hurt. c. Are without sociopathic. (Stealing the corrected language choice from your comment below.) 2. Extroverts who tolerate office politics are indecent. (The inverse of the statement that starts the third paragraph.) 3. (Through inference via there connection in the third paragraph:) Politics is meaningless noise, environmental chaos, and/or a lack of privacy. 4. Sociopaths are energized by office politics.

I find most of these flawed in one way or another, but I'd like you to confirm that my reading is correct before I address each in detail. I find your perspective judgemental, somewhat narrow and (ironically) un-empathetic and I think a debate about it could be enlightening.