Your office space is about to change. Again. From those 20th Century walled suites to yesterday’s cubicle farms to today’s open-space warehouses, the American business suite has been on odyssey of ...
Cubicles have a certain reputation: bland, generic…borderline soul-sucking (particularly if your workplace resembles Milton’s in Office Space). But it doesn’t have to be that way—something we’ve all ...
BALTIMORE -- Your office cubicle may be feeling more cramped than ever. Chances are, it is. Worker cubicles and workstations -- and even executive offices -- are shrinking, new research shows. Blame ...
Aug. 17, 2006 — -- Sitting in your cubicle at work, do you ever wonder sometimes just how you ended up there? Not too long ago, someone came along with a vision for a new and improved "office ...
Chris Ralston, one of several art directors at Callahan Creek, 805 Mass., keeps his workspace organized so it functions like a well-oiled efficiency machine. Chris Ralston, one of several art ...
Once ridiculed as a symbol of homogeneity and ennui, the work space is popular again as employees seek privacy and quiet in the office. How have you decorated your cubicle? Share your photos with us.
Forty years ago, in an odd-shaped building on South State Street between Interstate 94 and the University of Michigan campus, a team of researchers and designers came up with an idea that seems simple ...
One day recently I worked out of, quite possibly, the best office I have ever been in. Granted, this is not a high bar for a cubicle drone like me. Still, the design touches were lovely: It was a ...
“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 has become the ...
In 1999, 20th Century Fox released the American workplace classic Office Space. The film highlighted everything that was wrong with the office culture of the day, from claustrophobic cubicles to dull ...
“I’ll take the cubicle,” I say, pointing to the floor plan. “Number 9881A. By the window.” My colleagues gasp. A minute ago they were chatting by the conference room door. Now they lean over me and ...
Mike Judge, the creator of “Beavis & Butt-head” and co-creator of “King of the Hill,” has a cool day job. But it wasn’t always thus. From his memories of Dilbert-like employment in anonymous corporate ...