“putting everyone in a cubicle or office was too much, so the open-floor plan became very popular,” Mr. Held said. After long stretches of working from home during the pandemic, manufacturers ...

Now the lowly cubicle is making a comeback, as workers head back to the office and find they have lost the privacy and quiet they have working at home. Seeking quiet areas for focused work ...

Related stories The cubicle's comeback When Sydney Baker, 27, returned to her office in 2022, she was relieved. After two years of working from home as a digital marketer in Louisville ...

Employers are turning up the heat on workers who headed home during the pandemic to return to the office. The share of companies that say they are requiring in-office work has more than doubled in ...

And if cube farms weren’t bad enough, some managers started advocating for “open offices” where no one has an office, not even a cubicle, because the alleged collaboration benefits outweigh ...