SKIRMISHER

You might be reading this in your office, right smack in the comfort of your own little cubicle. And when you think about it, that small cubic area might be all the real estate in which you’d be spending the rest of your life.

So sad isn’t it?

Credit it to a business magazine to ask the million-dollar question to today’s cubicle-dwellers: How in hell did you get there?

Fortune says:

Reviled by workers, demonized by designers, disowned by its very creator, it still claims the largest share of office furniture sales–$3 billion or so a year–and has outlived every “office of the future” meant to replace it. It is the Fidel Castro of office furniture.

So will the cubicle always be with us? Probably yes, though in recent years individuals and organizations have finally started to chart productive and economical ways to escape its tyranny.

The soulless office cubicle has been jullienned to death by everything from Scott Adams’ Dilbert to Mike Judge’s Office Space, yet, it remains a central part of our daily lives. We spend more time in these boxes that it’s a wonder why our wives never get jealous.

The next logical question would be: Can anybody ever break out of the box?

THE GREAT ESCAPE [CNN]

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