Review the following argument presented by a management theorist. Match each excerpted statement from the stimulus to its exact logical role in the argument's structure.
Management theorist: Many contemporary consultants assert that adopting open-plan office layouts inevitably fosters spontaneous interdepartmental collaboration. However, this widespread prescriptive advice is fundamentally counterproductive. Recent observational studies demonstrate that employees situated in open-plan environments consistently wear active noise-canceling headphones to mitigate ambient acoustic distractions. Because utilizing such devices creates a visible barrier that explicitly discourages informal conversation, open-plan layouts actively suppress the precise interactions they are ostensibly designed to promote.
- adopting open-plan office layouts inevitably fosters spontaneous interdepartmental collaborationA claim attributed to others that the argument as a whole is designed to reject
- this widespread prescriptive advice is fundamentally counterproductiveThe overall conclusion of the theorist's argument
- employees situated in open-plan environments consistently wear active noise-canceling headphonesA piece of evidence advanced to justify an intermediate conclusion
- open-plan layouts actively suppress the precise interactions they are ostensibly designed to promoteA subsidiary conclusion that serves as a premise for the primary claim