An industrial spy's heaven
Having had the job of finding out what the competition was doing on occasion this environment is very helpful. You can overhear some of the conversations but a recording device is better. "Clean" workstations promote a great deal of interesting and up to date information in the dustbins. This sort of arrangement also means a single employee can move around from group to group so is not limited in information gathering to the group to which they have been assigned. I wish them well.