How common are cubicles now? I haven't seen one in nearly 20 years. And I find open-office environments kind of discourage non-work chat because you know you're disturbing others for no good reason.

Apologies. I think of cubicles the same as open office and they’re not. There is kind of a spectrum between these ideas.

In my above statement I was thinking of both cubicles and open office.

Still the norm outside of tech.