Reminiscent of Douglas Coupland's book 'Generation X' with everyone working in their fenced off spaces. The question is do or can organizations really change or do they have certain inevitable aspects ?
Google is still fairly young, but I woner if many of their employees fall into the same category ? And then Facebook ? Heaven help you if you work for Microsoft or Yahoo, a miniscule cog in another multistory.

Another question is whether every company, no matter how innovative, is
destined to catch up with itself. At some point, Microsoft was as bright
eyed and bushy tailed as Google but they had to "grow up."

Even Google is starting to see the bureaucracy winning out over innovation
more often than they would probably like.