In the past three years alone, half a dozen new companies have materialized out of thin air, all offering a new kind of office product. Call them pods. Boxes. Micro-offices. Phone booths. Cubicle ...
The promise of open offices, in part, meant bringing people together and strengthening collaboration between employees. But after a determined effort by tech companies and coworking spaces like the ...
Cubicle-dwellers will not be surprised by new research from the University of Sydney, Australia: Some 60% of workers who sit in cubicles and roughly half of those who sit in open-plan offices with no ...
In the cult film “Office Space,” the main character shares an epiphany about work life with his nerdy computer programmer friend: “We don’t have a lot of time on this Earth. Human beings were not ...
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Once derided as symbols of a commodified work force, cubicles are making a comeback, and workers are personalizing them and posting photos on social media. Jolena Podolsky in her cubicle at Simon & ...
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NPR's Planet Money team explores which is better for actually getting work done: an open office or cubicles. A maker of office furniture explains why many clients now want to go back to the cubicle.