Open spaces are awkward when neither you or your boss have an office. Anytime you or a coworker get pulled into a meeting room by management, it's very noticeable.
Getting into the habit of pulling someone into a meeting room any time you have a conversation that'll last more than a few minutes regardless of whether or not it needs to be private mitigates this and helps cut down on distractions.
The trick to surviving an open-plan office is to realize that everyone is paralytically distracted by anxiety for at least 75% of the time. This means that the other people aren't watching you; they're busy fretting about their own sense of being watched. It also relieves you of guilt for the low productivity that's typical of such spaces.
People in open plan offices aren't paralytically distracted by anxiety 75% of the time, or for any particular intervals of time. It's not nearly everyone, and what anxiety there is results from an accumulation of interactions and interruptions over time, much like how you shouldn't work in the same place you sleep.
