Can you remember the day when if you wanted to talk with your boss you  would go walking down the hall to his or her office? You’d knock on the  door, get called in, enter and perhaps shut the door behind you. Well  guess what – those days are just about over. 

Welcome to the new workplace reality: the open office. CIOs are being asked to make decisions about what office layout is going to be the best for their IT department and right now the open office is one of the leading candidates.