NPR's Planet Money team explores which is better for actually getting work done: an open office or cubicles. A maker of office furniture explains why many clients now want to go back to the cubicle.

Ah, yes. It seems Arper got a plutonium-powered Fiat 600 time machine and went back to the past for inspiration–a reedition of the cubicles that were used in the ’60s to end with the open plan ...

Now workers craving extra space are spurring the revival of two more vintage staples: cubicles and private offices. With doors that shut!

One aspect I’ve never been remotely nostalgic about was the open office setting, which the last company I worked for transitioned to shortly before I left. Cubicles aren’t great (and I don’t ...

A cubicle-free workplace without private offices ... in a fishbowl means many choose email over a desk-side chat. In an open office workplace, study co-author and Harvard Business School professor ...

Cubicle nouveau. There’s no one name for ... And now employers want that productivity back–within the same open office footprint. “We’ve heard a lot about open offices and how horrible ...

Little did anyone realize that within a few years, the cubicle walls would come crashing down. The tech boom arrived, bringing with it open office plans and a Silicon Valley-led gloss of ...

But as criticism of the open office grows, some companies are seeing an uptick in cubicle sales. The design, though, is no longer leaning toward the cube farm — think of the drudging ...

According to Capterra, setting up 50 standing desks for an open office plan costs $24,000 compared with $60,000 to set up 50 cubicles. That's more than twice the cost for cubicles. There's no ...

In part because the cubicle has become such a despised symbol of a bad office job, the gray, felt-covered walls are starting to come down. More open office plans with fewer or no partitions (or ...