August 17, 2006

Death to Cubicles ...




Meandered my way to this awesome Fast Company article titled Death to Cubicles. 
Collaboration is great, but sometimes I'd kill for a door. .... Fittingly, this outburst took place just down the road from the University of Colorado, where in 1968, a fine-arts professor named Robert Propst came up with the "Action Office." Propst's vision was to give white-collar workers, then toiling amid rows of desks in huge open spaces, both more privacy and a way to individualize their space. By that measure, cubicles were an improvement. But in the hands of space-mad facilities planners, the idea was perverted to justify an officescape that resembled the Chicago stockyards. Dilbert was born. Scott Adams got rich.


Nicely written. Read the full article here.

 

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