The actor Ron Livingston, playing office worker Peter Gibbons, looks over a cubicle in the 1999 movie "Office Space." Photo: Twentieth Century Fox via Getty Images
And you thought the cubicle was an goner, Nathan writes.
State of play: First, open-office plans were all the rage — then the pandemic supercharged remote work.
That seemed like enough to seal the fate of the forlorn, flimsy office half-walls.
The intrigue: "And yet cubicles, like scrunchies, are back, spurred by demand from employers and employees alike," the New York Times writes, citing research that global sales of cubicles and partitions are expected to jump from $6.3 billion to $8.3 billion over the next five years.
A big factor: Workers returning to the office want quiet spaces, NYT says.
💠Nathan's thought bubble: Cubicles might make it easier to focus, but they won't stop the constant flow of interruptions in the modern workplace.
