For many white-collar workers, the concept of heading to work and sitting in an isolated, closed-off cubicle or office for several hours a day can be somewhat suffocating. The desire for laid-back, ...

“Man is born free, but he is everywhere in cubicles,” writes Nikil Saval -- tweaking Rousseau – in his new book, “Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.” “The culture of the office ...

Just as comic strip star Dilbert laments his incredible shrinking cubicle, office workers in the real world are finding their own personal workspaces closing in around them. A 2010 study by the… ...

Some people are wondering whether we should abandon the entire open-office concept and go back to a more old-fashioned — but, in these pandemic days, safer — plan of separate offices and high ...

Among office designers and architects, cubicles are rarely mentioned. The once-ubiquitous fixture, so popular in the 1980s and ’90s, has become vilified as a sign of the dehumanization of the ...

More open office plans with fewer or no partitions (or even long picnic tables serving as desks) are now all the rage. The irony is that the open office was exactly what the creator of the cubicle ...

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.