Question: The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
Privacy-challenged office workers may find it hard to believe, but open-plan offices and cubicles were invented by architects and designers who thought that to break down the social walls that divide people, you had to break down the real walls, too. Modernist architects saw walls and rooms as downright fascist. The spaciousness and flexibility of an open plan would liberate homeowners and office dwellers from the confines of boxes. But companies took up their idea less out of a democratic ideology than a desire to pack in as many workers as they could. The typical open-plan office of the first half of the 20th century was a white-collar assembly line. Cubicles were interior designers’ attempt to put some soul back in.
Here Option 3 becomes the best choice because, after reading the passage well, we know it comprises of two parts, one being the dismantling of the walls and the other of the result in relation to selfish business interest. Option 2 can be eliminated because satisfaction of workers is not a direct link to the passage. Option 1 is not the right choice because the passage revolves around the intention of companies. Option 4 is incorrect because it ignores the labour point which is important in relation to the passage.