This setup is a spacious, open cubicle area that usually spans 10 to 12 feet or more. A bullpen design promotes a feeling of openness within the office, making it ideal for collaboration.

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 ...

Courtesy of Herman Miller Inc. This 1968 photo shows one of the first uses of the Action Office furniture system. Forty years ago, in an odd-shaped building on South State Street between ...

More open office plans with fewer or no partitions (or even long picnic tables serving as desks) are now all the rage. The irony is that the open office was exactly what the creator of the cubicle ...

Cubicles and partitions are making a return as the virus speeds the move away from open plan office spaces, architects say. Design firm Bergmeyer is reinstalling dividers on 85 desks at its Boston ...

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 ...

When it debuted in 1964, the Action Office was supposed to be revolutionary. It was supposed to set office workers free. Instead, it became the modern office cubicle you call hell.

By the late 2000s, many offices had ditched cubicles altogether in favor of a sea of unobstructed desks. But now, we've come full circle, or full square: Nostalgia for the cube has quietly ...