The risk of coronavirus transmission among cubicles could push office design back to the "mind-oriented living space" the workstation's inventors intended.

These tiny, prefabricated rooms run from a few thousand dollars to over $10,000 apiece. Whereas cubicles of yore were open-air dividers, these new spaces are fully self-contained rooms.

The walls are closing in on white-collar workers — their office environments are shrinking, propelled by new technology, a changing corporate culture and the age-old imperative to save a buck ...

John Thain can have his corner office and $35,000 commode, but for a certain kind of chief executive a cubicle--or another form of open workspace--works just fine.

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.

In the fall of 1969, just a few months after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, one Capital City business took a small step for Lincoln, but a giant leap ...

Robert Propst, a brilliant designer working in the 1960s for the office-furniture firm Herman Miller, invented the cubicle. ILLUSTRATION: Getty Images ...

Each year, the average American spends nearly 2,000 hours working. For many, that time passes inside the three little walls of a modern cubicle. Writer Nikil Saval explores these odd spaces—how ...

Cubicles aren’t required to be stuffy or boxy to be effective. Cubicle design can be both fun and functional, and fit in your design without sacrificing comfort in a modern office.

The cubicle turns 50 years old this month. What a life it's had. Designed to liberate the office worker from the privacy-less panic of the open office, Nikil Saval, author of "Cubed: A Secret ...

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.… ...

"We don't have a lot of time on this Earth," says the cubicle-dwelling protagonist of the great cult film "Office Space" (1999). "We weren't meant to spend it this way." ...