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Building a Better Cubicle

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Did you know that the average cubicle has been getting smaller? The typical cube has shrunk from a "spacious" 250 square feet in 2000 to 190 square feet today. For years, companies have been trying to pack as many of us in as possible.

 

The good news is that some firms have realized that tiny gray boxes may not be the best environments for productivity. According to research by office furniture manufacturer Steelcase, cubicles are starting to evolve.

 

“Stuffing people into little boxes without any reflection of the different tasks or needs they have is over,” says Paul Siebert, director of Workspace Futures at Steelcase. Companies are experimenting with more fluid work spaces to support the different ways that people work. Read more Steelcase research on "The State of the Cubicle."

 

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3 Responses to 'Building a Better Cubicle'

  1. anon - September 13th, 2007 at 12:36 pm

    190 sq feet? Ours are 64 to 80 sq feet in size. The cubes in your photo above looks even smaller. So I wonder about that number in your article. I know, let’s compute the total volume of occupancy… 400 cu ft… that’s a nice large number; are we worth it?

  2. Yep - April 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Our BRAND NEW cubicles are 64 sq ft (before the furniture). Something wrong with your numbers.

  3. Pamela Skillings - April 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 am

    Wow. Sounds like cubes have been continuing to shrink from the size quoted in that study quoted by Steelcase. Or maybe companies overreported their cubicle sizes for the study so they wouldn’t sound so pathetic. Maybe 64 square feet is the new standard. Yikes. I think it’s time for me to look for a more recent study.


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