Where do these people get their (unoriginal) ideas?
“Any kind of interruption can cause these details to come crashing down. When you resume work, you can’t remember any of the details (like local variable names you were using, or where you were up to in implementing that search algorithm) and you have to keep looking these things up, which slows you down a lot until you get back up to speed.”
Burn down the cubes of cubecity. Treat people like real people, not veal, and they will produce real work.