Justice Department May Be in the Next cubicle
22 May 2012, 6:35 pm
The Justice Department appears to have learned a lesson in the 10 years since it indicted Arthur Andersen LLP for alleged improprieties in the firm’s Enron bookkeeping. By 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously vacated a conviction in the case, the accounting firm had collapsed, and all but a handful of the 85,000 employees worldwide lost their jobs.

Nedda Alammar: A Cautionary Tale: When Your Boss Wants to Become Your Friend
22 May 2012, 5:41 pm
When my boss wants me to just roam around his office/cubicle and talk about whatever until he's ready to leave and maybe go out for drinks with him, my defenses are up.

Going swimmingly
20 May 2012, 10:42 pm
It gets kind of lonely in that fluorescent-lit cubicle, doesn’t it? Bet you could use some company from the animal kingdom. Options are limited, though — a puppy probably isn’t going to cut it, and even a hamster can make a racket, not to mention unnerve rodent-phobic colleagues. A...

'Headphones are the new wall'
19 May 2012, 7:45 pm
Open floor plans were designed to foster teamwork. But some say it means workers can't hear themselves think.

This Cute cubicle is the Ultimate Home Office [Desired]
16 May 2012, 9:16 pm
# desired This is the Kororodesku , a diorama-like workspace designed by Tokyo-based Torafu Architects , that is one part desk, one part office cubicle, and entirely charming. Its plywood frame can be purchased with an interior polyester veneer in any one of over 1,000 different colors, making the Kororo desk an irresistible addition to just about any home office decorating scheme. [ Inhabitat ...

Snap in judgment earns jail time
4 May 2012, 4:39 pm
A MARRIED Toowoomba man held his phone camera over the top of a women's toilet cubicle in a drunken attempt to film a 21-year-old woman using the facilities.

AdVoice: When Does It Make Sense to Kill the cubicle?
3 May 2012, 2:05 pm
cubicle farms continue to live long and prosper and have become the de facto method to organize millions of corporate employees. But in a world where transparency and social collaboration dictates how we work and play why does the curmudgeonly cubicle still make sense? Sometimes it doesn't as companies like (my current employer) are finding ...

Writer’s Block: cubicle games
2 May 2012, 5:28 pm
The other day while sitting in my cubicle, a certain odor washed over my area. Didn’t know what it was, but let’s just say I had a rather odd reaction.

How can I get my cubicle neighbour to shut up?
29 April 2012, 7:22 pm
The noise is driving me crazy, my work is suffering and I’m at my wit’s end

Move over cubicle, hello virtual employment
23 April 2012, 1:20 am
Usually when you think of an internship, you think of working in a small office room at a big corporate company filing papers, organizing the mail room, or going on coffee runs. But what if you completely transformed the traditional intern job and made it virtual? The virtual internship course here at DePaul University is designed to take the internship experience somewhere more familiar…home.