While he’ll be remembered for the iMac, iPod and iPhone, Steve Jobs spent his final days dreaming up a revolutionary office that could effortlessly blur the line between workplace and green space. More than six years and five billion dollars later, the first employees have begun the move into the new circular, glass-walled Apple Park campus built by Foster + Partners. But based on early reports, it seems that Apple’s visionary cofounder didn’t account for his colleagues' distaste for open-floor design.

In an effort to foster productivity and cross-team collaboration in their new state-of-the-art facility, all of Apple’s 13,000 Cupertino employees below the VP level will work at long benches and tables rather than inside walled offices. According to in-the-know Apple podcaster and blogger John Gruber, the new-age approach to office seating is already a major source of friction. “Most Apple employees ha[d] their own office.… They always did. But those moving to the Apple II campus now won't," he explains in his podcast, The Talk Show.

As a result, some teams have resisted the move to the new space-age campus entirely. Gruber reported that Johny Sruji, senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will sequester his team away in a separate building. Some in Cupertino believe the new seating arrangement will lead to attrition, fearing that engineers just won’t want to work in an environment where distraction and disruption are now the norm.

There have been plenty of passionate arguments both for and against any correlation between open floor plans and employee productivity. With Silicon Valley workplace culture a hot topic and industry analysts watching Apple’s every move, it will be interesting to see whether the tech giant caves into this pressure to fix its feng shui.