Silicon Valley Is Rethinking The Cubicle Office
Don Clark of the Wall Street Journal has published a great piece today explaining why more and more tech titans, including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and now Intel, are beginning to mimic an organizational principle more common to Web 2.0 startups: They’re ditching their office cubicles!
In place of the old-school, upholstered grey boxes, Intel will apparently be implementing far more open, social office layouts that “include tables where several users can plop down with laptop computers, multiworker desks, and lounge-like settings with armchairs.”
Why? Well… as Don reports, through testing these new, more community-friendly work environments, old school managers have finally come to accept that “Dilbert-style cubicles have many shortcomings.” READ ON >>