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 ...

Office mazes in which just about everybody below the rank of vice president works in large open spaces, divided by partitions into “cubicles,” are the standard workplace setting for millions of ...

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 ...

In the cult film “Office Space,” the main character shares an epiphany about work life with his nerdy computer programmer friend: “We don’t have a lot of time on this Earth. Human beings were not ...

A growing number of companies are packing their workers into ever smaller workspaces. They’re ditching offices and cubicles in favor of a more open office plan. Some companies say they’re creating a ...

NPR's Planet Money team explores which is better for actually getting work done: an open office or cubicles. A maker of office furniture explains why many clients now want to go back to the cubicle.

Once upon a time, offices had walls inside them. They weren’t glass, like the conference rooms of 2019, but were made of drywall, and were usually painted a neutral color, like many of the walls you ...