This setup is a spacious, open cubicle area that usually spans 10 to 12 feet or more. A bullpen design promotes a feeling of openness within the office, making it ideal for collaboration.

Are these trendy open office layouts torture to the techie brain? To be sure, Web 2.0 has birthed new types of technology employees who depend on — even thrive by — working in groups.

The idea that they were related at all came to me when I was first doing the research for this book, which coalesced into an article for n+1 (where I’m an editor), called “Birth of the Office ...

I was a summer intern with a small desk in a hallway when my career began in 2003. There was another intern who had her own cubicle with high walls that kind of looked like a mini office. I really ...

This is an actual floor plan of an office cubicle layout in a really large, open office. One wonders whether “pink noise” would be enough to stifle distracting sounds in such a setting.