Suggestions were made that perhaps, instead of dry wall, glass should be used. Or, better still, shoulder-level movable screening to create the kinds of cubicles found in companies like Old Mutual - where cameras could be mounted overhead for greater ease of monitoring.
It was an interesting discussion. I reflected afterward on what the Leslie had once been - a 1970s-styled tribute to open space and brown (those yucky carpet tiles...) - and what it has become, with every available square metre walled in and the brown superseded by clinical blue. And how, in other conversations, many of the longer-term occupants had yearned back to those early days of open space, of open head space, of open agendas and open hearts and minds...
Perhaps the leaky walls are a step in that direction, after all?