@GrantMeStrength even the designer that brought them to be in the first place quickly scoffed at all those that embraced it for money savings instead of his intent.
Office Space Time Loop: From Open Plans to Cubicle Farms and Back Again - 99% Invisible
In 1960, the designer furniture company Herman Miller formed a research division and began examining how offices actually work. Under the direction of inventor Robert Propst, mathematicians, psychologists and anthropologists were consulted and layouts were examined with an eye toward worker behavior and performance. Out of this endeavor came a modular Action Office system. Made
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