There’s a scene in the classic 1999 movie Office Space where the increasingly carefree protagonist Peter takes out the screws from his cubicle and pushes down its wall, letting sunlight into his space ...

During this year’s NeoCon, the most influential and popular trade show for commercial design, it was clear that companies are making big shifts to take care of their employees through better office ...

I can't say this really counts as an environmental story, but David Franz has a very amusing piece in The New Atlantis on "The Moral Life of Cubicles," which originally came into vogue in the late ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Stanford's Nick Bloom says most white-collar workers think ...

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.

While at one point, the cubicle was an emblem of American middle-class drudgery, as people and the media made it out to be, it's now making a comeback into the post-pandemic world. A post online ...

In 2007, WIRED.com (then known as "Wired News") asked readers with particularly depressing office cubicles to submit photos of their plight. People hated their cubicles---and rightly so. They didn't ...

Scratchy walls. Confining space with no windows. Being able to hear the constant pen tapping of the person next to you–it’s not hard to see why cubicles get a bad rap. In fact, the cubicle has become ...

While the cubicle is today seen as a symbol of the drudgery of office work and the control companies have over their employees, the design was originally meant to give workers more freedom when it was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rodd Wagner is a Minneapolis-based writer who covers worker happiness. This article is more than 6 years old. “The cubiclizing of ...

The progenitor of cubicle culture appears to be having some second thoughts about those seas of soul-crushing squares. After receiving a thorough ribbing from Conan O'Brien and crew last April for its ...