It was like I was an afterthought. I've spent 10 years in financial services, where I worked in everything from high-walled cubicles to open office floor plans to eventually having my very own office.

Little did anyone realize that within a few years, the cubicle walls would come crashing down. The tech boom arrived, bringing with it open office plans and a Silicon Valley-led gloss of ...

Is your cubicle messy? Do you speak when they walk by? These kinds of things are important to me. I've never worked in an ...