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.

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 ...

The cubicle is undergoing a makeover. And even some cubicle manufacturers concede it’s about time. The ubiquitous workstation has served companies for more than four decades. Despite its ...

I also spent 10 years in B2B tech and software-as-a-service companies, where there's nothing but open office plans. Cubicles are good for deep work and privacy, but they can be isolating.

“We actually saw the rise of the cubicle in the 1960s as a means of trying to inject personal identity and private space into the one-size-fits-all open office,” says Jonathan Webb, VP of ...

Capitalism has resulted in the creation of some truly soul-sucking ideas, including the cubicle: an office without the privacy, comfort, or permanence of a real room. But if the open office trend ...

"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 ...

Bernstein studied two Fortune 500 companies that made the shift to an open office environment from one where workers had more privacy. Using “sociometric” electronic badges and microphones, as ...

Though some companies still use cubicle working, most abandoned it; according to a 2019 Savills survey, 73 per cent of UK workers use an open-plan office. And over the years, the open-plan office ...

“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 ...