clerks sit from 9 to 5 clacking away at typewriters or old-fashioned adding machines, making carbon copies
The size of the space for an employee had/has nothing to do with status. It is cost per square foot with an office layout design that uses the smallest amount of square feet per employee. It is also designed to be able to change layouts as business changes.
clerks sit from 9 to 5 clacking away at typewriters or old-fashioned adding machines, making carbon copies
Walls and doors are classified by the IRS as physical plant and have to be depreciated over 49 years. Cubicles are office furniture and can be depreciated over, I believe, seven years. That’s the real reason nobody gets an office anymore. It has nothing to do with productivity. If anything, the noise and distractions of a cubicle environment reduce productivity.
I’m employed by a billion dollar corporation and in a brand new campus environment just built this year
Gone are the cubes as we are now in an open office environment with no cubicle walls at all. Just desks with 4 feet dividers serving as cabinet/file space.
I miss my cubicle.
I’m still trying to figure out how this guy took the C&NW to Glenview...the Cardboard & No Wheels didn’t (and still doesn’t) go anywhere near Glenview. That’s Milwaukee Road country.
The old-style office (if the managers were not tyrants...and mine weren't) were much more conducive to a type of office camaraderie. Not saying I loved my job, but I liked having a more open environment than working in what was basically a tiny closet i.e. the cubicle.
Would we have Dilbert without cubicles?
There is a very strange BBC show available on Netflix called W1A, a comedy about office life at the BBC, it is funny but takes some time to get used to it, it demonstrates how ineffective business has become because of office structure or no office structure, and politically correct language which is so bad it is hard to follow until you realize that is the whole point.
