Despite the communal office design trend, research from Gensler shows employees want their own quiet workspace.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Nothing captures the banal horror of corporate America quite like the cubicle farm, the row upon row of monochromatic, boxy structures that so many office workers, ...

When it debuted in 1964, the Action Office was supposed to be revolutionary. It was supposed to set office workers free. Instead, it became the modern office cubicle you call hell.

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 ...

Cubicle design has come a long way since bland, padded walls in row after row of inflexible workstations. Don’t let the increasing trend of open office spaces deter you from cubicles if your ...

The risk of coronavirus transmission among cubicles could push office design back to the "mind-oriented living space" the workstation's inventors intended. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

In a memorable montage from the 1999 workplace satire "Office Space," Peter Gibbons, a fed-up office drone, decides to take a stand. He parks his Toyota Corolla in his Porsche-driving boss ...

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 ...

Cubicle farms, according to office historians like Nikil Saval, reminded people of their place in the power structure, with higher-ups typically allocated more space.