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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Cubicle" has got to be one of the most efficient words in the English language. Nothing so swiftly conjures up such a feeling of dread and drudgery. "We don't have a lot of time on this Earth," says ...

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 ...

Imagine having your own space at work. For most Australians working in corporate offices, it's a far-off dream. More than 2.2 million Aussies aged 15 to 24 were employed in July 2025, most of whom ...

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.

With its sober façade and rusty Swiss cow sculpture guarding the entrance, the design firm dTank could easily pass for an art gallery. Indeed, once inside the building on Third Street, visitors gaze ...

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 ...

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 ...