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As office workers make their return, so does the lowly cubicle

As office workers make their return, so does the lowly cubicle

Cubicles, like scrunchies, are back, spurred by demand from employers and employees.

Ellen Rosen

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Among office designers and architects, cubicles are rarely mentioned. The once-ubiquitous fixture, so popular in the 1980s and ’90s, has become vilified as a sign of the dehumanisation of the workforce. Design experts today say cubicles are a “hard no”.

And yet cubicles, like scrunchies, are back, spurred by demand from employers and employees.

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