The Buckets by Greg Cravens for July 09, 2019

When my company went through years of multiple rounds of layoffs, I likened it to mortar rounds falling into trenches as cubicles randomly became empty.

(I watched my company go from 150K employees to 22K. They had 34K when they caught up with me. When my boss told me I was next, I wished the shell-shocked survivors good luck and they were envious.)

You’ve gotta come out sometimes, Doug, or you’ll get “Cubicle-Foot”…

Someone needs a vacation, or at least a mental health day off.

They don’t bother with clear walled cubicles… they just switch to the “new” open office concept.

Of course, it isn’t really new, it was in use decades ago and eliminated as a counter productive way of managing an office…

so, of course, they had to bring it back as a “new and improved”, and oh so popular, office scheme. Makes retirement just that much better… 8^)

@sml7291: I thought cubes were bad until I saw the way the “new” open-office schemes were being implemented. At least when I started office work, in the late ’60s, we all faced the same way; we all knew how to use indoor voices; and inter-desk visiting was on a business-only, as-needed basis. The “new” concept was more like a raucous kindergarten classroom.

Once upon a time our IS department had cubes with 2’-wide openings in the walls between people who regularly collaborated.