Whoever thought an open floor plan or low cube walls was a good idea? A lot of people, apparently. It's as if somehow, a cube wall prevented collaboration, that workers couldn't get past that barrier.
Not only that, the idea that groups produce better results than individuals, is suspect.
It's time to rethink the office, not only because of the above, but also the shift from long term, permanent employment to wide-scale, free-lance employment. See Accenture's "Rise of the Extended Workforce," Princeton's "Decline of Worker-Firm Attachment," the Aspen Institute's "Future of Work." A short book that explains the underlying factors in the trend: "Race Against the Machine."
