The butt of all office jokes may be up against dynamic office design layouts, but here are some tips to keep cubicles thriving in your modern workplace. Cubicles aren’t required to be stuffy or boxy ...

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 ...

Each year, the average American spends nearly 2,000 hours working. For many, that time passes inside the three little walls of a modern cubicle. Writer Nikil Saval explores these odd spaces—how they ...

Office cubicles offer employers several advantages: They create inexpensive work stations while maximizing floor space, and can be reconfigured as needed for individual offices or shared areas. "Cubes ...

As today's business world continues to evolve in numerous ways, office spaces have undergone a dramatic revitalization. Whereas offices of the past felt they were not complete unless they had cubicle ...

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 ...

Office space would never be the same. Some loved the privacy. Others hated the isolation. Experts disagree if it was an improvement or a step backward, after it was embraced in giant firms, and ...

Nikil Saval's new book, Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (Doubleday, April 22), is a fascinating guide to the intellectual history of the American office. Part cultural history, part ...

The shine wore off quickly for Apple's $5 billion new office space. As one Silicon Valley publication reported, the sight of the massive open office plan induced expletive-laced ire in at least one ...

An open plan design, with no partitions between desks ('open bench' configuration), may be healthier than other types of workstation arrangement for office workers, suggests research. An open plan ...