I don't even get a cube where I work
A few years into my career the idea of cubicles caught on and quickly became the norm, and now of course we're stuck with these horrible open offices that are, in my experience, just absolutely dreadful for productivity; but since everyone is doing it nobody really notices anymore.
You can largely thank Jim McCarthy of Microsoft fame for that, who in the mid 90s coined the concept, "beware of a guy in a room":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY6BCHqEbyc
https://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_gristwood/archive/2004/06/24/...
When I'm in a coordination role, open concept is better because I can hear everything in the office and route information accordingly.
When I'm in a crafting role, open concept is death to productivity.
A "successful" company probably already has a culture that's going to be hard to change, but where management is trainable, you can sometimes improve things by giving them something else like else to focus on, like commit logs, test suites, or ticket updates.
