[madengr]

Healthcare? Hell, we just had our dental insurance dropped. Healthcare is now a $10k OOPM at rates 3x what they were 10 years ago.

The open office plan could work with tall, fabric cubicles. My place now uses short, glass & aluminum ones. Not to mention people chit chat too much. I'm an EE and have to think about complex stuff; I can't think with the chit-chat; breaks my squelch.

Fortunately I have a lab I can retreat to. Thinking about moving in there permanently.

[ConceptJunkie]

Those fabric cubicles absorb a lot of sound. I miss them.

[noir_lord]

Cubicles where original marketed as "Action Offices" there is a book on the history of them called Cubed: A secret history of the workplace.

The creator of them came to regret his creation as they where subverted in a direction he never expected.

I've often wondered what a modern cubicle if designed today would look like, we've done wonders in computer modeling and such since even sound dampening designs would be much easier.

[iamdave]

A desk with a single wall in the front, behind where your displays would sit, and a frosted glass pane demarcating rows. "We're not an open design", but you don't exactly have anything remotely resembling a private workspace either.

[Arizhel]

I used to have a private cubicle, around 2000-2004. I didn't like it too much at the time. I really miss it now. Life was better back then.