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 ...

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 ...

Desk partitions are commonly seen as giving employees increased privacy but a new study shows that people may be better off without them. Researchers from the University of Arizona looked at 231 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, in an odd-shaped building on South State Street between Interstate 94 and the University of Michigan campus, a team of researchers and designers came up with an idea that seems simple ...