Today’s offices are no longer defined by drywall and closed doors. Companies are redesigning their spaces to reflect ...

Office mazes in which just about everybody below the rank of vice president works in large open spaces, ... dwellers in these office “bullpens” are building walls to gain some privacy.

Capitalism has resulted in the creation of some truly soul-sucking ideas, including the cubicle: an office without the privacy, comfort, or permanence of a real room. But if the open office trend ...

Now, for many office workers, the cubicles are also gone. There are only desks. If you’re under 40, you might have never experienced the joy of walls at work.

If a living wall is too extreme for your home office, opt to construct a simpler version using a large bookshelf with adjustable shelves. Fill the shelves with different sized plants, and you'll ...

An inflatable balloon wall is seen April 7, 2021, at Google’s office R&D lab that wheels into place in situations requiring more privacy at Google’s campus in Mountain View, California.

Tropical plants sprouting up from partition walls provide privacy to workers inside this office in Utrecht, which has been overhauled by architecture studio Space Encounters. Occupying the 14th ...

On the other hand, as many commenters on the Times piece stated, cubicles and four walls allow for more privacy and quiet. Which do you prefer and where do you think you work best? Let's hear your ...

He says that workers in open spaces quickly develop psychological fourth walls, the conceptual boundaries that protect their public solitude. For example, coworkers quickly learn that wearing ...

Typically, the firm that installs the wall provides care under a contract similar to any other office-plant maintenance contract. The best part of plant-covered walls: no paint job.