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 ...

Desk partitions are commonly seen as giving employees increased privacy. Desk partitions are commonly seen as giving employees increased privacy but a new study shows that people may be better off ...

There was a time when offices were huge, open spaces with desks lined up as they might be in a school classroom. At the end of the day, the desks would be clean and the seats empty. Then came the ...

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 ...

Major societal upheavals such as 9/11, the energy crisis and previous pandemics such as the Black Death and the 1918 flu have left a permanent mark on the world. No one knows to what, if any, extent ...

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 ...