Compare using booths with building permanent rooms or construction. Highlight how booths are faster to install, more cost-effective, movable and flexible, while traditional construction is slower, expensive and fixed. Booths vs. Traditional Construction It’s time to say the quiet part out loud: open plan offices just don’t work (or, at least not as well as we think they do). In choosing to maximize the number of employees that can fit into a space, companies sacrifice other critical elements of productive offices when they rely solely on open plans. Open offices tend to be louder, with more distractions and less privacy.