While the cubicle is today seen as a symbol of the drudgery of office work and the control companies have over their employees, the design was originally meant to give workers more freedom when it was ...

The new book, Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace, is a look at how the white-collar world came to be the way it is, and what it might become. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with author Nikil Saval.

The Historical Society of Michigan, nonprofit publisher of Michigan History magazine, is partnering with MLive to share excerpts of the magazine's content six times a year, coinciding with when the ...

This article originally appeared in Business Insider. While the cubicle is today seen as a symbol of the drudgery of office work and the control companies have over their employees, the design was ...

Why what's old is new again, when it comes to office plans. You might think the cubicle was invented by some big business overlord intent on crushing the individualistic spirit of his workers — as the ...

Every day, millions of people don uncomfortable clothes and drive to vast buildings full of drab desks and chairs. They do not make anything with their hands in these buildings. They do not direct ...

The cubicle turns 50 years old this month. What a life it's had. Designed to liberate the office worker from the privacy-less panic of the open office, Nikil Saval, author of "Cubed: A Secret History ...

20th Century Fox Gary Cole as Bill Lumbergh in the iconic movie "Office Space." While the cubicle is today seen as a symbol of the drudgery of office work and the control companies have over their ...